Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis concertgoers knew that H.R.B. stood for Harry R. Burke, 65, a Globe-Democrat veteran who reviews not only music, but art and books as well. Harry Burke had worked hard in his early days to fan cultural interest in St. Louis, but of late, rival critics had suspected that some of his vague-sounding concert reviews might have been prewritten. He had been caught with the Choral Society review when someone put it into the early edition by mistake...
...Last. This forced even doughty Commodore Vanderbilt to make peace. For $4,500,000 out of the Erie's treasury, he agreed to leave Gould, Fisk and Drew in control of the road. Gould soon double-crossed Drew and ruined him; Jim Fisk was murdered by a rival for the hand of Actress Josie Mansfield. By the time Gould was ousted from the Erie presidency in 1872, he had looted the treasury and wrecked the Erie's finances. Although it bravely extended its line to Chicago by 1875, it remained top-heavy with debt, repeatedly went bankrupt...
Grays Hall won six out of eight events to take the freshman intramural swimming title last night at the Indoor Athletic Building. Grays set three new records and outdistanced its nearest rival, Wigglesworth West, by more than 30 points. Holworthy was third...
Kirkland moved within one game of the House volleyball championship yesterday by beating Dunster in the I.A.B. The Deacons defeated their nearest rival two games to none, while Eliot also shut out Winthrop by the same margin...
...after several "retirements," he has still enough dancing magic to make an ordinary musical sparkle, but this should come as no surprise. What is news is that Jane Powell, the current in a long list of Astaire dancing partners, sings and dances with enough youthful enthusiasm to rival the old master...