Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia two rival suitors of Miss Anne Brancato set out to make her the first Democratic woman Legislator from that city. One suitor sent his chauffeur campaigning. The other rang doorbells. Miss Brancato was elected...
...team through a football season, is out of all proportion to the importance of this phase of college life. (See Harvard Alumni Bulletin of October 7, 1932, p. 35.) The fact that many college graduates are charged approximately five dollars to see their college play football against its chief rival, or that an undergraduate student must pay a like sum for the same privilege, is in itself sufficient commentary upon the commercial aspect of American college football. In justice to some colleges it must be recognized that these earnings are well spent by supporting the college crew and other...
Revived, Captain Onslow (Warner Baxter) is in a peculiar position. He is affianced to a blonde Baroness Von Sturm (Miriam Jordan) but he decides that it would be more generous to break the engagement so that she will fall in love with his rival (John Boles). Highly satisfied with his experience of death, he is able to reassure an old lady that her departed son is well and happy, a small girl that her little brother has elephants to play with. He attends an important conference in time to cast the vote that defeats a treaty which would have injured...
Into the complicated life of Hunter Wright now intruded the Press. Covering the lion hunt for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was its energetic crime-news reporter, Alvin Goldstein, 1925 Pulitzer Prizewinner (for helping solve the Leopold & Loeb crime). The Post-Dispatch's up-&-coming rival, the Star-&-Times, had engaged United Press Correspondent Leland Chesley. Their rivalry became a feud when Reporter Goldstein claimed exclusive rights to take pictures and Hunter Wright supported his claim. The rival newshawks chartered separate boats...
...slunk out. Seven hounds cowered and whined. Off into the thick willows wandered the lions. Hunter Wright, gleeful, promised them a four-hour start, suggested lunch. At this point he found Newshawk Chesley busily taking photographs. Newshawk Goldstein complaining about the loss of his plates, threatening to break his rival's camera. "Please!'' begged Hunter Wright...