Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naturals," and childbirth in a claypit. In what now seems to be settling down into a serious contest between him and the other most eminent fiction writer of the South, William Faulkner, Mr. Caldwell has here delivered the latest blow. He has equalled if not outdone himself and his rival in inventing novel and repellent forms of rape and violent death. In the title story one of the characters amuses himself by cutting off dogs' tails, of which he keeps a large collection in a trunk. As a fitting accompaniment to these actions, most of the people in the book...
Year ago TWA inaugurated overnight passenger service between New York and Los Angeles with its fast Douglases. Last week its great rival, United Air Lines, having completed a $1,000,000 program to speed up its Boeings with new geared engines and variable-pitch propellers, inaugurated overnight schedules between New York and nine major West Coast Cities. Typical schedule: leave Newark, 4:25 p. m.; arrive Portland...
...onetime sweetheart (Katherine Alexander), now married to another man, for the affections of Geoffrey Sherwood (Ian Hunter) is presented honestly and with touches of saving humor. Miriam's final triumph is due, not to her ability to behave like a lady, but to her ability to make her rival behave like nothing of the sort when, at a fashionable luncheon, she goads the latter into throwing a grapefruit at her head...
...yacht. Disgruntled Mr. Rand spent the night in jail. Arraigned next morning, he protested that up to 1932 he paid his taxes in New York. Furthermore, he could pay no Massachusetts taxes even if he owed them. Since 1925, when he merged Rand Co. with his son's rival firm, he had lost part of his fortune in the stockmarket, given another part to his children. Hounded by creditors, he finally turned all his assets and liabilities over to his son. A director of Remington Rand and several other companies, he owned no stock of value, had but one asset...
When a jilted member of the socially elect stands drunken outside the church in which his erstwhile sweetheart is being married to a wealthier rival and proceeds to vent his bitterness in witty remarks about the holy ceremony, it is only fitting that a poor shop-girl standing by should save him from the police. Equally natural is it that, after diverting his thoughts from the river's brink in an evening of alcoholic pleasantry, she should marry the fellow to complete his salvation. Like most plots, this one has not all the elements of originality, but in "The Girl...