Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became the hero of novels, the theme of poems. Some people thought he looked a little like Peter the Great, victor at Poltava (which Semion Budenny lost fortnight ago). One of the largest coal trusts in Russia was named for him. A city in the Caucasus, a town in the Ukraine, factories, collective farms changed their names to Budenny. The grey peaked cloth hat which used to be part of the Red Army uniform is called Budennovka. Among men who knew horses he became the incarnation of horsemanship, something approaching the upper half of a Centaur. Red cavalrymen sing...
...Give to "all States, great or small, victor or vanquished" equal access "to the trade and to the raw materials of the world...
...Sanford L. Cooper, cable editor, Pittsburgh Press; Neil O. Davis, editor and publisher, Lee County Bulletin, Auburn, Als.; Robert E. Dickson, cable and telegraph editor, New York World-Telegram; Donald Grant, reporter, Des Moines Register and Tribune; Henning Heldt, reporter, Jacksonville Journal; Everett R. Holles, cable editor, United Press; Victor O. Jones, sports editor and assistant managing editor, Boston Globe; Robert Lasch, foreign news editor and editorial writer. Omaha World-Herald; Edward M. Miller, Sunday and feature editor, Portland Oregonian; Thomas Sancton, reporter, Associated Press; Kenneth N. Stewart, national news editor, The Newspaper...
...regular rip-snorting Western which should have received top billing. This time the three Younger brothers, Robin Hoods of the West, join forces with Jesse James to provide more desperadoes in one picture than we've seen in a long time. They manage to give the double crossing sheriff, Victor Jory (our favorite villain, by the way), his just deserts, and everything in the end comes out as it should...
...grand fervor and sweep, and the new recording communicates these qualities superbly. Unfortunately there was no opportunity to compare it side by side with the old one of the work, made years ago by Thibaud, Casals, and Cortot conducting Casals' orchestra. That set, one of the oldest in the Victor catalogue, has been recalled. However, it is safe to say that the performances in that version can hardly have excelled those in the new one. And both soloists and orchestra in the new set are reproduced with a brilliance and fidelity that represents the best in modern recording...