Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best commodity, climate, Florida adds other attractions for affluent nonresidents. Its longtime rival, California, has lately frightened cinema executives by threatening a 33% income tax. With income taxes already banned by the State constitution, Florida recently ratified an amendment exempting cinema companies from taxation for 15 years...
Columbia has registered the only win of the year gained by a League rival over Harvard, defeating the Cambridge outfit in New York last month by a 10-7 score...
...Hollywood's most famed directors is correspondingly more childish in its manner. After winding through an interminable succession of overdecorated scenes, in which flashbacks show the progress of the love affair while the elderly lover tells the story of it to his latest and most formidable rival (Cesar Romero), it ends in a sequence which, because Director von Sternberg wanted it to mean one thing for stupid audiences and another for intelligent ones, winds up as a feeble ambiguity. Most tedious shot: Dietrich biting her underlip to express passion...
Circulating letters fraudulently secured from dissatisfied users; boycotting distributors; shutting off the supply of "mix"; offering to purchase used counter freezers from druggists at exorbitant prices; threatening to set up rival drugstores if a counter freezer was installed; sponsoring legislation and ordinances drawn to penalize users; persuading sanitary inspectors to harass stores where freezers were employed...
...home with W. C. Fields and his lads and lasses of the showboat in "Mississippi." We may be a bit biassed, but we must consider Bill Fields the most interesting item in any picture which is fortunate enough to be graced by his bulbous-nosed presence. When his main rival for honors is Bing Crosby, there should be little opposition to our prejudice. In "Mississippi" Fields is good--not quite as good as he has been, but still highly amusing. His lines show a little heavy-handed brushing over, but his voice and ingratiating manner are unchanged and score their...