Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because M. Isnardon, ex-champion pugilist, amateur painter, sometime of the Ritz in London, is also a champion cook, whose fame has spread all over Provence, his inn is the stopping place for most of the pilots who are training for record-breaking flights, and his walls are a gallery of photographs of the first flyers of France. Here have stayed Rossi, Codos, Bossoutrot, Doret, Mermoz, Le Brix, the late lamented Boucher, all the bright company of those whose deeds have kept France in the van of aviation; and here, too, Delmotte, chunky, red-faced, and carefree, together with...
...would seem more startling were not the other characters in After Office Hours equally freakish in their mannerisms. The hero, Jim Branch (Clark Gable), is a managing editor who, for no apparent reason, wears a pencil in his derby. The villain (Harvey Stephens) is not only a playboy, adulterer, champion sculler and murderer, but also a candidate for Senator. Sharon Norwood's mother (Billie Burke) makes sandwiches at midnight and talks like a lunatic. To cinemaddicts familiar with the strange symbolism of the medium, these quaint absurdities immediately indicate that After Office Hours treats of high life...
...capacity which cannot be told by looking at the creature. Nevertheless breeders buy cows which have "long thin tails with a good switch," buff noses, incurving horns, in the belief that such dams will infallibly transmit their milk-producing ability to their calves. To sire their herds they buy champion bulls which have convinced judges on some 25 show-ring points. The result is that unbiased experts no longer claim that cows registered, in herd books produce more milk than unregistered animals, that wise breeders sometimes pay more for unregistered cows than for their elite sisters. A survey in South...
...especial interest this year is the graduate team, which has informal matches with the Varsity and has won all but one of the New England amateur trophies. The other one was taken by the Varsity. Members include John Hurd, last year's Varsity captain and intercollegiate foils champion; Henry Walker, captain in '33 and New England sabre champion; and Henry Wesselman, captain in '31 and expert foilsman. Holding the intercollegiate epee team trophy at present, the graduates are conceded a good chance to annex the intercollegiate title this year...
Smith is a graduate of Roosevelt High School, Des Moines, Iowa, where he served as president of the student council and as president of the high school debating team. During 1933, he was Iowa state champion in extemporaneous speaking, and he has for the last three years been city champion of Des Moines in the same field...