Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...east, then back to the starting point. Skipper Vanderbilt crossed the line neatly as the starting gun boomed, stepped out in front and to windward of Shamrock V, from which a ton of lead ballast had been removed. Strategically, Enterprise kept her advantage, tacking with Shamrock V, keeping her rival out of the wind and at a disadvantage as a hawk follows a pigeon. Unable to shake off the defender, outraced, outmaneuvred, Shamrock V trailed nearly 6 min. behind at the first marker. At the end of the reach on the second leg she was 10 min. astern the more...
...Squealer (Columbia). Davey Lee who stepped from urchinhood to stardom with Al Jolson is the squealer. His gangster-chief father Charles Hart (Jack Holt) has just killed the leader of a rival gang and is hiding from the dead man's cronies. Davey as Bunny does not know that he has told a mortal enemy the whereabouts of his father. To save her husband from certain death Mrs. Hart (Dorothy Revier) weepingly calls in the Law. Father Hart is caught in time by the police and sentenced to seven years for manslaughter. In prison the sore festers, he is convinced...
...Paramount). Though fantastic and melodramatic, The Sea God has the merit of an original idea. "Pink" Barker and one Schultz, rival sea captains of the south seas, wager their ships on the outcome of a race. Daisy, in love with Barker but unwilling to show it until he mends his shiftless ways, stows away with him. Barker's craft is far ahead until he turns back to rescue a demented derelict in an open boat. The derelict dies after telling of a great pearl bed off a nearby island. Because of the rescue Barker loses the race and his ship...
...Malory, onetime bacteriologist, now a tramp, is walking country roads towards the town of Sharon, on his way to an act he thinks Fate requires of him. In his pocket is the infinite wealth of a revolver. He is going to kill Nightingale, once his best friend, his onetime rival in love, his onetime benefactor, then his ruin and (he thinks) cause of his wife's death. In the village cemetery Malory stops by his wife's grave, then goes on to Nightingale's lonely mansion by the sea. But he finds his enemy too late: Nightingale...
...propose honorable marriage to cool, semi-adventuress Mrs. Wintringham; young Philip Dantry to his first night of love with his clay-footed actress idol. Other figures, not so outwardly respectable, join the shifting parade: Gunman Sicily Tony, actual husband of Jim Towner's mistress and still a rival for her affections; Pat Healy, doorman of old Hector's apartment house; "Lucky Sam" Lipschitz, Dave the Slapper, gangsters...