Word: vic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ohio's Vic Donahey has lately boasted that he will vote against the Pope-McGill Farm Bill pending in the Senate on the ground that he cannot understand it. This was practically the only complaint not offered by various rebellious members in the House last week, as Chairman Marvin Jones of the Agriculture Committee maneuvered his 86-page Farm Bill toward the first vote taken in either House on a part of the President's program for the special session...
...Californians, always enthusiastic about their football teams, last week turned out 80,000 strong to see undefeated and untied University of California rip off three touchdowns (two by Vic Bottani), trounce University of Southern California...
Great credit is due the Theatrical Collection for assembling this timely exhibition. The play has been given very few times and only at the "Old Vic" in London and at Start ford-on-Avon has it been repeated often. For this reason it was very difficult to gather together enough play bills and pictures to present such a sizable exhibit...
...attempt to predetermine the sex of their clients' babies. Because Anthony Adverse and Gone With the Wind were big novels, publishers have lately favored what might be called the Weights & Measures Theory. This week Publisher Macmillan again subscribed to this theory with the announcement that And So-Vic-toria weighed 7! Ib. in typescript, ran to over 1,600 pages in manuscript, 618 pages in print, and was going to be a successor to Gone With The Wind. Critics were not so optimistic. Some believed that the newcomer's size might be due to glandular trouble. Others thought...
...Hamlet was Kronborg Castle, whose sombre walls and pinnacles frown across the narrow sound between Sweden and Denmark. A state property for centuries, the old place was a military barracks until ten years ago, when it became a marine museum. Last week a troupe from London's Old Vic company played the drama of the melancholy prince on the designated spot-at Kronborg Castle. Directed by Tyrone Guthrie, Laurence Olivier (The Green Bay Tree) took the name part opposite Vivien Leigh's Ophelia. Cadets of the Danish Military Academy acted as soldiers and courtiers. A gale the previous...