Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early morning, he hastily dons petticoats, pretends to be a maid. Enter a fat old Baron who promptly sets to ogling and tweaking her (him). From then on the amorous Baron is never sure whether his path is being crossed by a lovely maid or a courtly rival. True love, young, starlit and sudden, comes to the stage when Octavian, clad in shining satin and bearing a silver rose, is sent to ask a rich young heiress to marry the Baron. Most operas end tragically but when Octavian and Sophie have finished their duet it is clear love will triumph...
...smiling, quiet-spoken, curly-haired youth of 21, Stan Kostka has been dubbed "King Kong" by his hometown sportswriters because he is wedge-shaped and his arms seem to hang, apelike, below his knees. Only 5 ft. 10½ in., his official weight is 210 lb. Rival coaches suspect that this is possibly some 20 lb. short of reality...
...first three reels, one closeup scene registering jealousy and another registering defiance in the last four. At the climax the dog-store owner has been put on the spot by Raft who, in a fit of remorse, goes through a hail of police bullets to save his rival's life and die in a moire silk dressing gown at the foot of a joss-house idol...
...Grand Island, Neb., frank Mrs. Sam Garrett told her husband she wanted to elope with a traveling salesman. Helpful Mr. Garrett sent the children to a neighbor's, borrowed a car, offered his services as chauffeur. Together Sam Garrett & wife & rival set out on the elopement. Explained Mr. Garrett: "I didn't want to make her mad." Struck with remorse at her husband's unselfishness, Mrs. Garrett changed her mind, called off the elopement...
Last week while Princeton was swamping little Lehigh (see below), White Plains nosed out its big rival, New Rochelle...