Word: rivaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wynn, chief claimant to the title of the world's simplest person is now playing at the Shubert. There have been rival contenders for this position of honor in the past; Harpo Marx runs through a nifty exhibition every time he appears, but even he must make way for Dr. Wynn in the latter's special sphere. He was the "Perfect Fool" par excellence, and now he has out-perfected perfection if such is possible...
...individuality is not to be imposed upon and that no matter how flatly its educational dish is cooked up by the authorities, it will spice it with its own luxurious and adventurous nature. Physically, aesthetically, mentally, the Bryn Mawr and Wellesley students rise above the prosaic materialism of their rival sex and epitomize the resourcefulness and progress of femininity...
...unrelenting insistence upon impartiality, accuracy and absolute honesty in news created standards that have become universal in American journalism, and for that all Americans stand tremendously in his debt," said Karl August Bickel, president of the rival United Press...
...college magazines and papers imbues the aspirant with confidence, thereby saving useful years when he is working professionally. Of two men, both starting work on a newspaper together and both having the same amount of technique, the man with the college experience has an enormous advantage over his rival...
...play becomes almost wildly funny when Hamlet and Ophelia, from a rival puppet show, visit the harlequinade. Ophelia's rue was never worn with such a glorious difference as by Marion Evensen. Hamlet, played by Richard Nicholls, dies with Pierrot's rapier through his heart and on his lips a quotation from "The Merchant of Venice...