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Word: victor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand-picked assistant president, Richard Frankensteen. The Unity group is a combination of opposition forces led by Vice Presidents Ed Hall and Wyndham Mortimer and by the daring young tacticians of the sit-down strikes, Robert Travis, George Edwards, John Anderson and the fabulous Reuther Brothers, Walter, Roy and Victor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gears Ground | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Whiteoaks (adapted by Mazo de la Roche from her novel Whiteoaks of Jalna; produced by Victor Payne-Jennings). Chief distinction of Whiteoaks is its 101-year-old heroine, played to the age limit by Ethel Barrymore. A wealthy, imperious, chops-licking war horse, Gran Whiteoak is surrounded by an obsequious tribe worrying over who will inherit her money. Neither her fuddy-duddy children nor her horsy grandchildren are prepared to see it go to Finch, the family neurotic (Stephen Haggard), and they kick up quite a rumpus when it does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...Living (adapted by Hardie Albright from the book, I Knew 3,000 Lunatics, by Dr. Victor R. Small; produced by Cheryl Crawford). The theatre, having investigated slums, hospitals and prisons in recent years, last week turned its attention to an insane asylum. All the Living takes a steady, unhysterical look at the inside of an overcrowded, understaffed state institution, makes no attempt to prettify the facts, none to magnify the horrors. The mad, like the sane, have their differing personalities, and in an atmosphere vocally more suggestive of a bird shop than a human habitation. All the Living runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...harpoons a mullet, merou, moray, ray, octopus, none of which is so suspicious of man underwater as of man out. Besides being better exercise than most fishing, goggle fishing has one further sporting advantage: It exposes the fisherman to some risk of being the victim as well as victor in the game. On one occasion, when a large octopus wrapped itself around Fisherman Gilpatric, he had a few bad moments cutting himself loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Goggle Fishing | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...team that faces William Jewell College will be made up of Sidney Dorfman '39, a member of the Guardian and Treasurer of the Debating Council, Malcolm Wilkey '40 and Victor Vaughan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS ARGUE NAVAL EXPANSION WITH BATES | 3/23/1938 | See Source »

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