Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main point that "Hit the Deck" brings out is the possibilities that the musical comedy has in the talking pictures. The absence of shifting scenes and the great range of situations gives an advantage, that the legitimate stage cannot hope to rival. Moreover, a judicious use of the camera makes it easily possible to look at the various scenes from a great variety of interesting angles without the discomfort of having to crane one's neck beyond the sides of the corpulent lady that always sits in the next...
...Europe he gets a guarantee, usually under 25%, of the gate. As he travels around the Continent he reports sporting events for various South American newspapers. He is an associate editor of the Littoriale, Roman news-review. Professor Reue Haussy, professional champion of France, is his most dangerous rival; recently he beat Philippe Cattiau, former world's greatest amateur, 14 touches to 5 with the foils. Most critics believe he would have had an easy time with famed fencers of the past: Kirchhoefer, Greco, Pini, Rue. They rate him with the great Marignac, notable for his ferocity. Marignac...
Siemens-G. E. A bitter opponent of German General Electric (A. E. G.) is Carl Friedrich von Siemens, both because German General Electric is his greatest rival and because it has violated his nationalistic feelings by allowing Americans from General Electric to sit upon its board. Yet last week Herr von Siemens apparently neared a truce with German General Electric, allowed U. S. capital to flow into his own company. The truce was taken for granted because of a new $32,000,000 issue of Siemens debentures to be sold in the U. S. It was rumored that about...
...Expense." But perfidious Mr. Webbe took the scheme to another printer and beat Franklin's General Magazine to the streets by three days with his (the first) American Magazine. Mr. Franklin, Philadelphia Postmaster at the time, retaliated by forbidding his post riders to carry the rival printer's American Mercury, a newspaper...
...When Professor Willis predicted another earthquake for Southern California the Los Angeles Graphic (society weekly) excited by a rival geologist, Robert Thomas Hill, assailed the prediction as "the incondite ravings of a mischief maker . . . God must have tipped him off." (TIME...