Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...encourage him in regular habits. "All his work was in disorder, just like his life. He wrote his pages in fits and starts, and then left them alone for months at a time." He had a high opinion of his own ability, which was not shared by his great rival, Playwright-Poet Lope de Vega. Biographer Tomas thinks Lope de Vega was responsible for the pirated parody of Don Quixote which was published before Cervantes' own conclusion...
Midnight Alibi (First National). Short stories by Damon Runyon generally mix good-hearted guttersnipes with nice old ladies (Lady For a Day) or babies (Little Miss Marker). The contrast makes good cinema fare. Midnight Alibi deals with a gangster named Lance (Richard Barthelmess), a rival gangster named Angie, Angie's sister (Ann Dvorak) with whom Lance is in love, and an old lady (Helen Lowell). The old lady lives in a brownstone house opposite Angie's night club. When Lance, running away from Angie's gunman, comes through her back door, she takes an interest...
Helen Wills Moody, in retirement since defaulting to Helen Jacobs in the final of the U. S. championship at Forest Hills last autumn, was last week reporting the Wimbledon tournament for Hearst papers. To have her longtime rival describe her first victory at Wimbledon was the pleasant prospect which presented itself to Helen Jacobs when she entered the centre court last week to play the final against England's demure Dorothy Round...
...more deserving. Big league managers are not wholeheartedly in favor of an all-star game. They feel that it tires their best players, gives the two special managers an unfair advantage because they may get a chance to spare their own men while using those from rival teams...
...Louis which the Giants won1-to-0, has been recognized as the National League's No. 1 pitcher for the past three seasons. Last year he was voted the League's most valuable player. Last week he got 86,048 votes to 62,201 for his nearest rival, Dizzy Dean. But even Hubbell's margin of popularity was surpassed by that of Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez of the New York Yankees. Gomez' amazing record this season is 13 games won, 3 lost. The Gomez total in last week's poll...