Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other last minute scandals caused shouts of glee to rise in Chelsea at the methods and standards of the R. A. Every Royal Academy must have a picture by a child prodigy. Last year's prodigy was long-legged Joan Manning Sanders, 17. This year's prodigy was 16, Victor Albert Ledger, employed by day as a delivery boy in Covent Garden. He submitted a picture of two drunken 18th Century sailors on the poop deck of a schooner, which was instantly accepted...
...beer in litre stone mugs, and there are few lovely women to rise smiling out of a pall of blue tobacco smoke. But in compensation, the orchestra plays Strauss as Strauss is seldom played. It plays other things also to stir the elemental passions of the Vagabond. Handel, Ravel, Victor Herbert and all the others that make music most palatable to the laymen. And a final inducement is the organ. It is not advertised as "mighty," the Vagabond is not called upon to sing "Love For Sale" as he listens to it, nor is he subjected to the strident tones...
Cobb, 1930 victor in the half mile with a time of 1 mins 57 2-5 sec., will partner with Fobes against Jordan, O'Brien, and Carew of B. C., all clocked at 1 min., 57 sec. The mile run will see Hallowell last year's winner facing Meagher an Moynahan of the Eagles. Moynahan was 10 yards behind Hallowell last year...
...some day, examining the gangster films of 1931, find them significant as perpetuations of a culture which the more self- conscious art-expressions of the day have rejected. For here, in realistic terms, brutalized in content and set going at a breathless pace, are stories and people that are Victor Hugo's stepchildren, many of them highly likeable and articulated with fine ingenuity. In this picture, why does Sylvia Sidney tie her arm in a black sling when her father telephones her to meet him on the corner "if she has to break her arm to get there? She could...
Married. Valerie French, 21, beauteous granddaughter of the late Earl of Ypres; onetime fiancée of Henry Bradley Martin Jr. of Manhattan; and Victor Henry Peter Brougham, 21, 4th Baron of Brougham & Vaux; in London...