Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that with his little army of 50,000 Irishmen he would fight any & every invader. . . . And he got away with it triumphantly, saved, as Mr. Churchill has just pointed out, by the abhorred partition, which gave the Allies a foothold in Ireland. ... It all sounds like an act from Victor Hugo's Hernani rather than a page of modern world war history; but Eamon de Valera comes out of it as a champion of the Christian chivalry we are all pretending to admire...
...Victor K. Koechl-Jane Elliot (Wellesley...
...Hirohito's earliest mentors were the war lords who had made modern Japan a power-stern General Maresuke Nogi, the victor of Port Arthur, and Admiral Heihatiro Togo, who, at Tsushima, had sunk most of Russia's feckless fleet in one of history's decisive naval battles...
...Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst of Prussia, former Crown Prince of Hohenzollern Germany, a crony of the Nazis. He was found in Baden, according to the Paris radio, by the French First Army...
Chopin: Music to Remember (Jose Iturbi; Victor, 4 sides). The four piano pieces with which Iturbi put Chopin on the cinema hit parade. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...