Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took me upstairs in a building and knocked on a door. A janitor told Uncle Harry that they were all sleeping. "Do you see?" said Uncle Harry. "That's the Advocate." Then he took me up the street and told me we were going into the CRIMSON, an old rival. "We've got to scoop them," was all I could hear, and the presses were not running, nor were they anything like you see in the movies. "That's the CRIMSON," said Uncle Harry as though he had won a battle, but I told him that I did not care...
...Third Year Law basketball team deposed its chief rival for first place in the Graduate School League when it defeated the Arts and Sciences quintet 39 to 28 in a fast game in Hemenway Gymnasium yesterday. The Law School team won despite the absence of Bob Leach 3L, who twisted his knee recently and was unable to play...
...officially hailed as "Union City's Most Useful Citizen" in honor of the 75th anniversary of his parish's founding, the 50th of his pastorate. The Passion Play, in six scenes and ten tableaux, departs from tradition in letting Christus talk. Attracting smaller audiences than its rival 20 blocks away, it presents a good Judas, a Caiphas who has played the part 18 years, a noteworthy Christus (Arthur Frech, bank teller). During Christus' soliloquy at Gethsemane a tinsel angel hangs over Him. The Crucifixion, lit with lightning flashes, is effective with Christus attached to the Cross...
...administering antitoxin by shooting him in the shoulder, kills the baby with his own mumbo-jumbo. These events are developed in a sharp atmosphere of authenticity, tautly directed by Arthur Beckhard, expert handler of family groups (Another Language). Good performances: William F. Schoeller as Hofnagel, Jules Epailly as a rival wizard, Victor Kilian as a slow-witted yokel...
...thinks he will never see again. As in Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the names of people and places are changed, but the thin disguise is not intended to deceive. A nonpolitical novelist, Bunin is out of step with his countrymen but beats no rival drum. Quietly certain that Russia is on the down grade, he says: "I know for sure that I grew up in the epoch of the greatest Russian might, and of the full consciousness of it." Born the third son of impoverished country gentry, "Alexey Alexandrovich Arseniev" grew up in central...