Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Music has often carried political meanings. When the Marseillaise was banned in Austria in 1840, Robert Schumann deftly quoted from it in his Patchingsschwankaus Wien (Viennese Carnival Joke). The mere name of Verdi was a slogan for Italian nationalists, because it was an acrostic for the then uncrowned "Victor Emmanuel Red'ltalia" (King of Italy). Sibelius' Finlandia rallied Finns when Finland belonged to Russia. And nowadays the opening "Fate" theme of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (corresponding to the Morse code . . . ) symbolizes occupied Europe's V campaign...
...sued Comedian Oliver Hardy for $96,757 income taxes, Victor Mc-Laglen for $6,113, Comedienne Zasu Pitts for $426. // 11 Beauty Connoisseur Earl Carroll sued Paramount for $300,000, charging A Night at Earl Carroll's had done that much damage to his reputation as a producer. // Franchot Tone told the district attorney he gave a jeweler $14,100 to buy a diamond-and-sapphire clip, sell it, and split the profits; but the jeweler put the clip in hock and never gave back the money. // Nelson Eddy and stepson settled an $8,723 damage suit against them...
Almost as questionable an acquaintance for Bertie was Britain's other ally, King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia, "a hairy man, of a virile physique, an amorous nature, and an indiscriminate affability." Bertie was much taken with him too, "chiefly because of his boast that he could decapitate an ox with one blow of his sword...
...Weeks, Jr., Bigelow Watts, Jr., William Whittington, George S. Wallace, Fred B. Withington, Jr., Stephen B. Smart, Don W. Richards, George B. Post, Hugh McCaffey, John H. Hewitt, Bradley D. Harris, Howard Hodgson, William J. Hornbeck, James W. Hubbell, Jr., Peter Garland, Ed French, George P. Early, Philip Drake, Victor J. Dowling, John P.E. Dempsey, George N. Casey, Clarence J. Clark, Arthur Bauman, Frank D. Bixler, Sherwood Bain and Thomas R. Ayres...
Matthew and Mary E. Bartlett scholarship to Harold D. Rosenbaum, of Fair Play, Ky.; James Jackson Cabot fellowship to Carl T. Nelson, of Jamaica Plain, Mass.; DeLamar student research fellowships to William E. Watts, of Seattle, Wash., Victor C. Vaughan 3d, of Richmond, Va., and Israel H. Scheinberg, of New York, N.Y.; Jeffrey Richardson fellowship to Eugene R. Sullivan, Assistant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; George Cheyne Shattuck memorial fellowship to Walter E. Knox, of McCook, Nebr.; Charles Eliot Ware memorial fellowship to William F. Pollock, of Santa Monica, Calif.; John Ware memorial fellowship to Herbert R. Morgan, of Bell...