Word: vigors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zulficar, the daughter of a prominent judge in Alexandria's Mixed Court of Appeals, Farida ("Peerless") had other drawbacks as a queen in Islam. Before her marriage she had shocked orthodox Moslems with her Western ways. She dressed in the latest Paris fashions, swam and danced with vigor, and mixed freely with the cosmopolites in Alexandria's foreign colony. Her courtship by Egypt's young King Farouk had been a riotous affair during which the two were often seen careering through Cairo in Farouk's snappy speedster or dancing together at Shepheard's. Although some...
Mozart: Symphony No. 33, K. 319 (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan conducting; Columbia, 5 sides). As symphonies go, one of the pygmies among Mozart's giants-but worth having for the bouncing vigor of the minuet and the fine sounds of a great orchestra. Recording: good...
...three-minute talk (which listeners expected to be his admission of defeat), Wallace cried: "The cup of iniquity of both the old parties will overflow and one or the other of the old parties will disappear." He exhorted his workers: "This crusade is going ahead with renewed vigor...
...capital astride the River Neva and christened it with his own name, it was an old Russian custom to honor a hero by calling a town after him. With the renaming of Petrograd in honor of Lenin, the Bolsheviks picked up the custom and carried it on with such vigor that a Russian geography now reads like a combination Who's Who, Social Register and Roll of Honor...
Deane said the drive would continue with "unabated vigor" for the rest of the week. Although he called the first day's returns "encouraging," he said there is no definite trend indicating that the $25,000 target will be hit without still more individual canvassing...