Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When winter comes adult nomad Lapps have a persistent habit of getting dead drunk for months at a time, leave to their hardy children the task of feeding the reindeer. When two Lapp men fight in earnest-and if they fight at all it is generally in earnest-the victor is apt to make a eunuch of his foe. Last week King Gustaf V of Sweden received an offer of charity to his Lapps from the famed Swedish author-physician, Dr. Axel Munthe (The Story of San Michele) who firmly believes the Lapps are a favored people, able to converse...
...Real victor last week was not General Kundt but Pope Pius XI who did something his predecessor Benedict XV was never able to do through the four years of the Great War. The Papal Nuncio in La Paz persuaded both Bolivia and Paraguay to agree to a 24-hour truce commencing at 10 p. m. Christmas...
...profundity. "Wine Is My Weakness" and "With Eyes Like Thine, 'Tis Sin to Weep" are two new pieces the Viennese relished. If Sissy visits the U. S., Kreisler will take out tunes he has borrowed from Apple Blossoms, the operetta which he wrote in collaboration with Composer Victor Jacobi 13 years ago. Apple Blossoms never saw Vienna but it made Kreisler a tidy sum in its long Broadway run. Kreisler wrote Sissy frankly hoping that it too would make him money, a fact which would have surprised last week's audience far more than the music...
...evening will be somewhat similar to the other concerts given this fall, but it is understood that the Gold Coast Orchestra will put on several specialty numbers which have never been produced before this season. The rest of the Gold Coast selection will include two new medleys, one of Victor Herbert, and the other of "Show Boat" melodies...
...William Ferdinand Petersen, University of Illinois; Victor Caryl Myers, Western Reserve University; Andrew Conway Ivy, Northwestern University; George Draper, Columbia; Foster Kennedy, Cornell University Medical College; Stanley Cobb, Harvard...