Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because receipts at Manhattan's Franklin Theatre, where she was singing, had jumped from $8,000 to $16,500. While Singer Smith is at Keith's Theatre in Washington next week, RKO will pay line charges for her radio program, for La Palina Cigars, to the Columbia Broadcasting System, rival to RKO's National Broadcasting...
Concerned with the moon, like that of almost all her rival crooners, her theme song is called "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain." She is proud because she helped write the lyric. Kate Smith is so popular that last autumn she received a letter from the president of the Uniformed Firemen's Association of Greater New York saying that she had been chosen "Sweetheart of the Fire Department of the City of New York." She gave an even more convincing demonstration of her appeal when, with Funnyman Lou Holtz, she was a principal on the bill which smashed...
...failed--because it has never been tried. Nor is it likely that it ever will be tried, for it runs counter to human nature. One must agree, then with Mr. Bliven, it appears, in his unhappy conclusion. If our present economic and political system is seriously threatened by a rival, such things as freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and freedom of press, will inevitably disappear. --Yale News...
...newspapers are set for another long barrage of crime news and revealing personal information. They made the Hall-Mills and the Judd-Gray cases famous in years past. The present situation, possessing even more dramatic intensity, bids fair to rival them. There is no escaping it, the American public is in for its periodic lesson in sordidness...
...fencing squad weakened by the loss of five letter men, but improving with steady practice since the beginning of November, will meet today at 2 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building to compete for places on the team which will face its first rival on February...