Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Click. The company had been offered the use of liquefied butane∙ for running the new train. According to experience of the rival Southern Pacific which has been trying out liquid butane, the synthetic fuel cuts fuel costs two to three cents a mile, lubricating costs one to two cents a mile...
...penitentiary came many an oldtime evangelist-converted drunks and burglars who could denounce sin after knowing it firsthand. But the most modern and thorough| going sinners are organized. From gangland has yet to come a reformed Capone to make converts as efficiently as he used to machine-gun rival racketeers. Nearest thing to an ex-gangster evangelist is the well-fed, twinkling tub-thumper who was billed last week at a church in a down-at-heel section of Brooklyn as Lou Hill. "Former Hijacker, Gambler, Confidence Man," a Chicago hoodlum turned holy. High point of imaginative Lou Hill...
Lest this be taken as a slight to Lynn Fontanne, let it be said that her rival, Miss Diana Wynyard is neither better nor worse, which means that Diana is now queen of Hollywood's ball room women--there being two classes of actresses at Hollywood, ballroom ladies, and livingroom ladies. Miss Wynyard has a new coiffure and sports a new and spritely manner in her delightful acting of the part of Eleana, at once wife of a psychiatrist and mistress of an exiled Archduke. All Eleana shows is that, be it ever so sophisticated there is no place like...
Really a World's Fair it is to be. France, viewing it as a rival to her summer tourist trade, is not merely ignoring the Chicago doings but last week opened on a grand scale her Paris industrial fair in competition. Germany, having declined to participate, was last week reported thinking of sending over her chief propagandist, li'ttle Paul Joseph Goebbels (see p. 21). Chicago, where 50,000 Jews demonstrated against Adolf Hitler last week, made known that no German envoy would be received officially...
...Working Man (Warner). John Reeves (George Arliss) of Reeves Shoe Co. is a testy old tycoon; when his nephew and general manager implies that his days of usefulness are over, he takes himself fishing in a rage, runs into the two addle-headed children of his recently deceased industrial rival, Hartland. At first, Reeves plans to diddle the Hartland heirs out of their shoe factory. Presently he changes his mind; it pleases him better to get himself appointed their guardian under a pseudonym, make them help him build up their plant. This adds to their self-respect and diminishes...