Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Competition in the divorce market has led Nevada to adopt the most distinctive measures. All records have fallen by the wayside under the new rulings, in effect yesterday morning, by which divorce may be secured in six weeks and fourteen minutes, easily half the time of the closest rival. Efficiency supreme, with magistrates rising at 6 o'clock to prepare for the day's actions, and gambling extreme, by the newest laws, have brought all the sheep into the fold, while wolves of one sort or another have gathered for the killing...
...attempts to regenerate him again and again, and his friend, who loves his wife but also does his best to restore domestic happiness, are the other two main characters of the story. The friend is played by Gustav Diessel, an actor strongly reminiscent of Conrad Veidt, and a worthy rival of the German player. On the whole, the acting is extremely well done, especially so since all the parts are extremely difficult...
...past twelvemonth potent, progressive President Chiang has brought peace to most of China by driving two rival War Lords out of China, bringing a third into his regime. Nos. 1 & 2 are ex-Governor Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi ("The Model Province") and ex-Generalissimo Feng Yu-hsiang of "The Largest Private Army in the World" (TIME, Sept...
...onetime cowboy, leader of the House Democrats. Tears filled his blue eyes when he heard the news. "My closest, my best-loved friend!" he exclaimed. "Mr. Longworth was an aristocrat. I am a plebeian. Perhaps the very fact of our different rearing intensified our interest in each other." As rival leaders of the House Garner and Longworth had joked over the Speaker's official automobile, called it "our car" (TIME, Nov. 17). After House hours they amicably reviewed the day's events, planned for the morrow. So close in fact was their association that some Democrats grumbled that their leader...
...evenings, quite freely, but had no idea how much she understood. She understood everything. When Mr. Fatigay's lonely pedagogical exile was over, he took Emily with him to England. Amy, his fiancee, returned Emily's jealousy with interest, but made the mistake of despising her rival. By a clever ruse Emily substituted herself for Amy at the wedding (they were about the same height and coloring) and to Mr. Fatigay's horror he discovered he was married to a chimpanzee! The parson would do nothing about it. Mr. Fatigay rushed off to go to the dogs...