Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michigan, which is Yale's only rival for supremacy, will send 14 men, including Jack Kasley, 200-yard Conference breast stroke champion, Taylor Drysdale, Conference 150-yard back stroke champion, and Tex Robertson, Conference 400-yard swim and 220-yard free style champion...
...Morn burgeoned on calendars, candy boxes, cigars, suspenders, post cards. An anonymous couplet swept the land: Please do not think I'm bad or bold, But where it's deep it's awful cold. And whenever the excitement seemed likely to die out there were always rival Comstocks in provincial cities ready to blast the picture all over again...
Arthur Oakes, at 165 pounds, has all the makings of a showman to rival Phi Hines. He had control of the situation with sharp left jabs to the head, followed by rights to the body...
...Riskin and Director John Ford contrived to do both without giving their work at any point the appearance of a tour de force. A network of subsidiary plots-the sad misadventure of Jones's maiden aunt when she meets Killer Mannion; Mannion's astute revenge on a rival gangster who mistakes him for Jones-are brilliantly used to make the doings of little Jones the more strange, heroic, touching and preposterous. In his dual rôle, as Jones and Mannion, Edward G. Robinson gives his best performance since Little Caesar. Good shot: the mean, mysterious little...
...Great Hotel Murder (Fox). Month ago in Under Pressure Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen were a pair of truculent sand hogs, snarling savagely at each other while digging a vehicular tunnel. This time they are rival detectives, investigating the death of a banker in a hotel and thereby putting all its guests under suspicion of murder...