Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment. Trouble came last week to some researchers in the U. S. Public Health Service's laboratory at Washington. Searching for the cause and cure of psittacosis (parrot fever), eleven of them came down with the disease. The laboratory had to be closed, leaving psittacosis a momentary victor over the U. S. Government...
...VICTOR HUGO is the one great figure of French literature whose name deserves a ranking with Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe. It was very much to be expected that the French who have contributed notable biographies in the modern manner on the outstanding literary men of other nations should at last do justice to their own Romantic genius. The volume has been well received in Paris and it is to be concluded that it is for Hugo's compatriots an altogether satisfactory up-to-the-minute estimate. That it is equally agreeable to the American temper seems to this reviewer very...
...part well. He was an admirable snake in the grass with a most gracious smile for his puppets and a devastating frown for his enemies. In the midst of prodigious excitement and complication he seemed to keep a very clear head and came within an ace of being the victor. The comedy element in the guise of Sieur de Beringhen, Gordon Hart, was effective in spite of the fact that his elongated person did not particularly suggest a gourmand. Ernest Rowan as Chevalier de Mauprat was just a bit enthusiastic, but the high flavor of his lines excused that...
...late Enrico Caruso made one Tosca record-"E lucevan e stelle" on one side. "Recondita armonia" on the other (Victor...
...flurry of nervous excitement diplomats gathered at Victoria station last week. Prime Minister Tardieu, absent a month, was returning to the Naval Conference for the weekend. Every member of the French delegation was on the platform ; Britain's first Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander rushed away from a football game at the Oval to extend felicitations. Ramsay MacDonald sent a messenger to remind M. Tardieu to be sure to motor out to Chequers for Sunday lunch. U. S. and Japanese assistant secretaries beamed a welcome. At the Carlton Hotel, headquarters of the French delegation, doors banged frantically...