Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brand of warfare. Each year until 1939, Valaisan farmers, notorious throughout phlegmatic Switzerland for their hot tempers, had driven 200 stocky, combative cows up to the high pastures just beneath Alpine peaks. There the select 200 plunged into wild battle. They proved their cunning by dodging heavier opponents and victors of previous years. They showed their sportsmanship by stepping back to wait if the opposing cow slipped on the wet grass. The victor, having pushed or frightened away all other contenders after 3 days of cow combat, emerged as "summer queen...
...Donald Cook works with much vigor. His portrayal of the decadent, effeminate male is, however, slightly overdone, and occasionally approaches the prissiness of Edward Everett Horton. Mary Mason, his uncon-summate wife, has an annoyingly shrill voice which would convincingly irritate any husband, onstage or off. Alexander Clark, as Victor Prynne, is described by his wife as "a fat old gentleman in a club armchair," and is just that...
...singles winners, number one man Lane McGovern, had the easiest time, taking a 6-1, 6-0 triumph over United Shoe's Duncan. The only other Crimson victor to win in straight sets was Harold Swartzman, while Bill Brady, Travis Gresham, and Bill Mayleas required three sets each before they took their matches. Bill Wightman, Andy Muldoon, and Hal Melvin were the Varsity singles losers...
Then, well-fed and smiling, they settled back as Victor Shpihun, a 41-year-old shipyard worker, rose. With many a smile and glint of his gold-filled teeth, Shpihun carefully explained why he and the other 169 Canadian residents of many years preferred dictatorship to democracy. It was not that they loved Canada less, said Shpihun, but that they loved Russia more...
...long ago Leonard Feather, England's gift to the jazz critic's profession, arranged an album for the Victor company called "Esquire's All-American Hot Jazz." It features some of the musicians chosen by the Esquire people, including Mr. Feather, for their 1946 Gold Awards. There are four twelve-inch sides, three of which represent the not quite successful efforts of such noteworthies as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Red Norvo to turn a trio of Feather's weird compositions into memorable music...