Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publicly criticized U. S. diplomacy and discussed a possible war with Japan, prompted the New York World to flare up as follows: "It is high time somebody in authority told those admirals where they get off. . . . The spectacle . . . is shocking beyond words." The New York Herald Tribune flayed its rival's "petulant and unpatriotic attacks" upon the Navy and "Captain" Johnson rushed to the admiral's defense...
...psychotherapeutic sanitarium. Last week the New York Daily Mirror revealed, for the first time, the official findings of her autopsy. An overdose of heroin killed her. The Daily Mirror's article was a piece of journalistic enterprise designed to vex the publishers of the New York Daily News, its rival, and of the nickel weekly Liberty. For Liberty the week before had commenced a vivid, sympathetic biography of Jeanne Eagels, "genius and drunkard?artist and hellion?poet and devil?she battled to the stars!'' Liberty's article said she died of a dose, not an overdose, of chloral hydrate...
...attack begins. The opposing generalissimos launch their offensive catapulting skillfully-wrought missives from a secluded operating base. For ten days the bombardment continues. Attacks are met with desperate counter-attacks, flashes of individual heroism rival the instances of insubordination, sallies vie with sorties...
...week ago, have been rowing on the Thames several days before the Crimson eights arrived. Before the week is out the two University boats, Eli and Harvard, may brush in practice, although no actual pre-arranged meeting between the shells will take place. For years in the past the rival eights have been meeting by chance as they rowed on the Thames, furnishing some interesting pre-race comparisons. Meetings of this sort, although they may furnish little advance information on the genuine regatta of late June, add interest to the long grind of practice in the two camps...
...China; both sprang up to fill a need. Tong means association. The first tong was organized in San Francisco's Chinatown several years before the Civil War to protect its members from the invasion of competitors in business, from legal injustice (or justice). So effective was it that rival or imitative tongs were soon found wherever there were Chinese colonies. Tong leaders began employing hatchetmen (boo how doy), gun- men who managed the affairs of brainier tong leaders, terrorized respectable citizens, puzzled the constabulary. Gory, clever, macabre, the tong wars of the early twentieth century had much the same effect...