Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real acting comes from Franchot Tone. For the most intelligent man in Hollywood, he is amazingly effective at being dumb. He makes Joan wish for Clark by telling her she wouldn't care to neck, would she? And he makes Clark glow with low satisfaction, by allowing himself, the rival roving reporter, always to get thoroughly stymied...
...defeating the Bellboys, Kirkland widened its lead for the Intramural Trophy, as Lowell is the closest rival...
...strict cash-politics basis Mr. Davies was not entitled to the job. He gave only $17,500 to the Democratic campaign chest this year, whereas his rival for the job, Curtis Bok, esthetic son of the late great editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, gave $30,000. Moreover, Curtis Bok once worked in a Soviet candy factory and now is judge of an orphans court in Philadelphia. After election, however, Mr. Bok was let know that Franklin Roosevelt did not want any amateur diplomats in big jobs during present international complications. Young Mrs. Bok was given...
...cornered chase. Oiwin is trying to write 67 Mother's Day greeting-card orders for delivery to his employer, Mr. Carver (Guy Kibbee), Charlie, Patsy and Frankie are trying to capitalize Oiwin as a race-selector. Mr. Carver is combating the horse-players, whom he mistakes for a rival greeting-card combine, and Oiwin's wife, in Ozone Heights, is getting the police to find her husband...
...llystericat but her line as she watches her beloved husband, Ziegfeld, kiss a drunken chorine, is a real heart breaker--"You might at least have closed the door." Loy is competent as Billie Burke and Frank Morgan is at top form in playing Ziegfeld's friendly rival...