Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Peter Toohey and John Latham Toohey are father & son, rival pressagents. Father John Peter has been general representative for Producer Sam H. Harris (Stage Door) for six years. Son John Latham. 20, got his first job three months ago with Helen Deutsch, pressagent for Producer Gilbert Miller (Tovarich). A "smash hit'' can be judged by its box-office score. Week of Nov. 30: Tovarich: $21,000; Stage Door: $19,000; Tonight...
...courtroom stalked black-gowned Widow Gustloff to give her evidence. Immediately 24 Nazis jumped to their feet, raised their right arms in the Nazi salute. Next witness was the Swiss State's alienist. Dr. J. B. Joerger. The common-sense people of Switzerland have no time for rival alienists who dispute interminably the sanity of a prisoner. They appoint one man like Dr. Joerger whose opinion is final. "Frankfurter suffers mental and physical disturbances, factors causing limitation of responsibility...
...many as 500,000 Spaniards have perished since the Spanish War began. By far the greater number were noncombatants who died at the hands of rival firing squads or were killed in the battle for Madrid," declared Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, chairman of the American National Red Cross, back in Manhattan from an International Red Cross meeting in Paris...
...Harvard Tutoring Schools which was obviously based on information supplied by a malicious and prejudiced person. Many editors of the CRIMSON must know that Parker-Cramer has never in any way been connected with the "pay as you pass" plan. That plan was tried several seasons ago by a rival tutoring school...
...desperately insolvent marriage," Shaw said nothing to her. Still he believed that in some mystic way they were betrothed, and that she knew it, was consequently stunned when she ran off with a Comrade named Sparling, who was even poorer than himself. Nor was that all, for the rival's possibilities of future eminence were, Shaw rightly felt, more limited than...