Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roll in the aisles when lanky Ray Bolger impersonates a window dresser retiring for the night, or when squalling, grimacing Bert Lahr is bilked by a stockbroker. But plenty of people will be amused by Cartoonist Robert Wildhack who brings to the footlights an old trick that made his Victor record, "Snores & Sneezes," famed some 20 years ago. Mr. Wildhack timidly comes onstage in cap & gown, nervously thumbing a notebook, to lecture on labial "Sound Phenomena." With authentic academic embarrassment, he takes up snores, classifies them scientifically, self-consciously illustrates them. Snore 2 d, the "Westinghouse Airbrake," a heart-rending...
...jovial Irishman named Victor Herbert (Mlle Modiste) and an ex-U. S. Marine Corps bandmaster named John Philip Sousa ("The Stars and Stripes Forever") founded A. S. C. A. & P. to collect royalties for songwriters and com posers whose works were then being bandied from one cafe to another with never a penny's profit to the men who made them. At first it was uphill sledding bu. Victor Herbert had a smart attorney named Nathan Burkan and a willing helper named Eugene Howard Buck, who collaborated on 20 Ziegfeld Follies. Under George Maxwell, its first president, and now under...
Three Governors. James M. Cox was Democratic Governor of Ohio before he ran for President in 1920 with Franklin Roosevelt as second fiddle on the ticket. A. Victor ("Vic") Donahey was Governor from 1923 to 1929. George White has been Governor since 1931. Last week these three potent Democrats were at odds over who should oppose standpat Republican Simeon Fess for his Senate seat. Messrs. Donahey and White were both candidates for the Democratic nomination, Governor White campaigning as champion of the New Deal, "Vic" Donahey, lukewarm on New Deal policies, rounding up votes among his old friends, Ohio...
Tall, lean, hook-nosed Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 23, nephew and heir to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, head of the British branch of the great banking family, walked with a party of friends into a gay British roadhouse known as The Ace of Spades, then walked out again without his lunch. Hearing rumors, London newshawks scurried to his home, heard him shyly explain : "As soon as I entered, the manager came up and asked me whether I was a Jew. My appearance is hardly 'Aryan.' I confirmed the fact that I was a Jew and he replied he was sorry...
Grand Mobilization. Not on the Tugwell Line alone however did AAA depend. It organized every available man for counterattack on "Tory" critics. Over the radio, Assistant AAAdministrator Victor A. Christgau declared that without AAA "farmers would be driven from the land." George E. Farrell, chief of AAA's wheat section, claimed that the coincidence of the drought and AAA's crop reduction program had saved farmers $22,500,000: "When drought comes it doesn't make any difference how many acres you plant. It gets 'em all. It costs about $3 an acre to plant wheat. Farmers left...