Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orchestrion, which made Wagner sound like a merry-go-round. Tommy listened to it by the hour, vowed he would devote his life to music. Beecham's Pills made possible a musical education at home and abroad. Tommy learned much as accompanist to the late great French baritone Victor Maurel. But the pills were not always an unmixed blessing. When, after an inconclusive term studying law at Oxford, Tommy Beecham cut loose and bought himself his first symphony orchestra, he called it the Beecham Philharmonic. British wags dubbed it the "Pillharmonic" and laughed him off the podium...
...substantially equal terms (as was not the case after 1919) in the political and economic life of the new world order. Fortunately, in respect to economic opportunity this prospect is held out to Germany in Point Four of the Atlantic Charter: ". . . . the enjoyment by all States, great or small, victor or vanquished, of access, on equal terms, to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity...
Then they saw flashing light. Here, certainly, was an opportunity to go to town on seven to eight words a minute. One short flash, two-long ones ... aha, a William! Three short blinks, then a long one ... Victor, no less...
Manhattan's erstwhile best-known gangster and beerlegger, British-born Owen Victor ("Owney the Killer") Madden, became a U.S. citizen in Hot Springs, Ark. One of the rare big-time racketeers who have retired with a whole skin, Madden moved to Hot Springs soon after he got out of Sing Sing ten years ago, now putters in his flower garden, dabbles in local uplift...
...more than forty per cent of Harvard undergraduate have not heard of Churchill's "Empire Speech," probably less than ten per cent have heard of Victor Alter and Henrich Erlich. Yet the execution of these two Polish Jewish labor leaders by the Russian government is perhaps more important than any other event this year. That the Russian government, our allies, have found it impossible to forget the age-old Socialist-Communist enmity, even in the face of fascism that both are fighting, is a significant and provocative lesson...