Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Returns showed three other famed Republicans saving their political skins without much to spare. Borah in Idaho and McNary in Oregon, although their States went to Roosevelt, although each faced able campaigners, both pulled through. In Kansas, Arthur Capper, believed to be an easy victor, pulled through...
Carefully taken apart, the Goddess of Liberty was packed in 214 enormous crates, consigned to the steam-and-sail gunboat Isère for shipment to the U. S. In charge of the shipment was a 19-year-old French lieutenant, Rodolphe Victor de Drambour. No hatches on the little ship were big enough for the enormous crates. He cut open the side of the ship, pushed the dissected goddess straight into the hold. Throughout a 72-hour storm with canvas cut to staysail & spanker, Lieutenant de Drambour stayed on the bridge of his ship, while the crates shifted wildly...
...Magnificent Brute (Universal) investigates the lighter side of life in the Pennsylvania steel towns. At his boardinghouse, Big Steve Andrews (Victor McLaglen) is idolized by Mrs. Finney, its proprietress, and her 10-year-old son. In the mill, he runs its most efficient furnace crew, to the chagrin of bragging Bill Morgan (William Hall). Their rivalry reaches its climax after Big Steve has stolen Bill's girl (Binnie Barnes), when Big Steve climbs into the ring with a professional wrestler imported by Bill. The wrestler throws Big Steve who, it appears, has lost $400 contributed by fellow workers...
Until July 1, 1937 Victor Hall, assistant professor of Physiology at Stanford, gree of bathroom humor, (the W.C. was invented in 1592 by Sir John Harington, a godson of Queen Elizabeth, according to the staff of History 1) it is still in bad odor with arbiters of public taste such as Will Hays. For example, no glimpse was to be had of this delightful piece of furniture in the bathroom scenery of "Swing Time." With some pleasure and no fear this department takes pleasure in offering a copy of its composite picture of allRepublicannomineesforpublicofficeattheNovemberelections to anyone who reports a bona...
...often and so fortunately occurred in English history, a Scotsman, Victor Alexander John Hope, Marquess of Linlithgow, was making good last week in one of the Empire's greatest jobs, that of Viceroy & Governor General of India. This tall, strongly-built and stanch lowlander arrived at the Viceregal Capital of New Delhi last spring with the especial confidence of Britons. Here was no glittering snob of a Lord Curzon, no "friend" of Mahatma Gandhi like Lord Halifax, and above all no amateur who would have to study India from tne isolation of his golden Throne and might begin...