Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muench and her husband, Dr. Ludwig Muench, announced that she had given birth to a baby, "a gift from God in her time of distress." The enterprising Post-Dispatch produced evidence to show that an infant previously planted in the Muench home in July had subsequently died. The rival Star-Times turned up clues indicating that the "gift of God'' belonged to Anna Ware, not to Mrs. Muench, whose marriage had been childless for 23 years. After a change of venue, Mrs. Muench was acquitted of the kidnapping charge by a jury of farmers and small shopkeepers...
That tale is now a Detroit legend. Police estimated the crowd at 100,000, and Nancy Brown began to rival Edgar A. Guest of the Detroit Free Press as the city's top literary figure. When she announced a religious Sunrise Service for her Column Family on Belle Isle last year, some 30,000 Detroiters crawled out of bed to attend. For a similar service this year attendance jumped, in Editor Gilmore's reckoning, by "two and a half acres" of people. When that alert local preacher named Edgar DeWitt Jones volunteered as Column Chaplain and invited Column...
...last week that all the important songwriters were bound personally to the Society by new five-year contracts, that Warner Brothers' experiment would depend on finding new talent. But ASCAP was obviously perturbed. Its strength has been its ability to dictate terms without thought of rivalry. An ASCAP rival is what Radio has long been wanting...
Oldest and biggest of the swank preparatory schools affiliated with the Episcopal Church is St. Paul's at Concord, N. H. Haughtily independent, St. Paul's recognizes no traditional rival, takes part in no sports with other schools. Yet its fame rests more upon the hockey players it sends to Harvard, Yale and Princeton than upon its scholarship. Its academic aim has been stated by Arthur Stanwood Pier, its official historian, as "teaching boys to think like other people."* Over this rugged, if not particularly intellectual, school presides as rector and headmaster the Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith Drury...
...Factor is a brother. Lately Elizabeth Arden, who operates 22 high-priced beauty salons in the U. S., discovered that interest in socialite endorsements is waning, cast envious eyes at the Factor lineup. She went West, bought a cosmetic company, gave a great many parties. A second rival group are the Westmores, four brothers of a wig maker once associated with Max Factor, who have exclusive rights to the make-up departments of RKO, Paramount and Warner Bros, and have opened a Hollywood salon. But in the three-cornered battle Factor still wields the most potent weapon, star endorsements...