Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aviation companies were able to defraud the government; it would perhaps be enlightening to investigate the financial connections between these two gentlemen and their clients. At any rate, Mr. Brown may have the satisfaction of reflecting that his late colleague, the unspeakable Mr. Doak, is no longer without a rival...
Perhaps because of his personal popularity with the Soviet masses, Klim is often called "Stalin's only rival." Stories constantly circulate that Klim and other Red Army officers strongly resent the privileged position of Stalin's praetorian guard, the OGPU "Special Troops." It has even been stated that the Red Army's rifles are taken away from it every night and locked up in each barracks by the OGPU-doubtless an exaggeration, but not without significance...
...important news about University affairs. About two thirds of the front page is devoted to what you journalists probably call "World Affairs," but which I consider out of place in your columns. The CRIMSON has for years been an organ of student opinion at Harvard. It cannot successfully rival the Boston and New York papers (or even the Cambridge Sun) for news of international or national affairs. Any intelligent student wants to know more than the poor material offered in the CRIMSON on these matters. As for your articles on Norfolk, you simply do not know what you are writing...
...fortnight ago that the Party is not Monarchist (TIME, Jan. 29). Hastily Author GÖring changed the title of his book from I Am a Monarchist to The Building of a Nation. Even then its publication was delayed last week by General GÖring's keenest rival, that club-footed imp of spite Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, the No. 3 Nazi...
...drawn out of this hodgepodge. It has, at best, a dark effectiveness, which she makes the most of: in the dinner table scene, in the bacchic moment of her triumph, in the resolution of hers and her lover's destinies in the end. Helen Claire, who plays her rival, sets off her unscrupulous cleverness for the best effect. Truly she makes a fine, sinister Jezebel, and if a beautiful wicked and elevah woman has any attraction for you at all, you will enjoy her acting despite its dramatic occasion...