Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barbasol shaving cream and razor blades; America's Own matches; Böst toothpaste; Burnett extracts and spices; B. V. D.'s; Champion spark plugs; Crown overalls; Dictographs; Eberhard Faber pencils; Frostilla lotion; Musterole; Northern toilet paper; Penn-Rad oil; Venida hair nets; Zemo ointment; Runkel chocolate; Kreml hair tonic; Stokely strained vegetables; Winget Kickernicks for women...
...believe that "everything written in the Soviet Press about the success of industrialization has been false." amounting to systematic "deception of the proletariat"; 4) they believe that "the material condition of the Russian worker is not improving but getting worse"; 5) they believe that Stalin today is not the champion but the "forsaker"' of the international working class...
...Norris is the joy of her family, a delight to the most successful wits in Manhattan, whose books, plays, columns or magazines may deride the very qualities Kathleen Norris' novels champion. George Kaufman, Harold Ross, Franklin P. Adams, Alexander Woollcott are doting friends. She remains abstract in any crowd, never gives the appearance of listening. When Corinne Roosevelt Robinson tried to tell her once that her brother liked her book, Mother, Mrs. Norris vaguely got him confused with a doctor in Buffalo, made a mental note that it was probably the obstetrical parts of her story that appealed...
Even more athletic than big, brawny President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange is tanned, wiry President E. Burd Grubb of the New York Curb, second largest exchange in the U. S. He was Delaware River champion swimmer, amateur welterweight boxing champion of Philadelphia (1911). He holds a course record of 70 at the swank Somerset Hills (N. J.) golf club. His British uncle, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, last year's challenger for the America's Cup, taught him to fly, but up until two years ago he preferred to streak across the New Jersey flats...
...Germany's handsome, beefy Ewfimij Dimitriewitsch Bogoljubow. The gallery, watching the tables in the hush of the Hastings and St. Leonards Chess Club, were most interested in two equally famed players neither of whom did as well as might have been expected. José Raoul Capablanca, onetime champion of the world, lost two games and finished fourth, a point behind the winners. Fat, solemn Vera Menchik, world's woman champion, was born in Czechoslovakia, brought up in Moscow, now lives in Hastings. She dismayed her neighbors by winning only one game, finishing just ahead of the two Englishmen...