Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really a buxom girl, but beside ethereal "Miss Universe" her dimples looked their deepest, her curves and bulges fulsome. In the Galveston pulchri tude tourney as "Miss Rumania" she was not even runner up. Magda had come, hired by a Rumanian roulette syndicate, to welcome her successful rival and shepherd her to smart Sinaia Casino, where she was to be featured as "guest beauty" for a month...
Like the Communist Party of Soviet Russia, the Nationalist Party of China is the supreme political ego of China, tolerates no rival groups, deals out political sentences in open meeting by the vote of a well-heeled majority...
...reactionary country folk of Norway whose representatives dominate the Storthing are bent on restoring the almost prehistoric names by which Norwegian cities were called before the fatherland came under the rule of Danish and later Swedish kings, from which it emerged independent only in 1905. Stubborn zealots, the Norwegian rival Deputies changed the Danish name of Norway's capital, "Christiania," to "Oslo." Having changed Trondhjem to Nidaros, they now contemplate changing the names of two of Norway's major ports, Bergen and Christiansund. to "Björgvin" and "Fosna...
...these companies (to which others may be added) is said to be between 25 and 35 million radio tubes a year. Fifty million tubes were sold in 19:8; 80 million are expected to be sold in 1929. In tube production the new merger will thus be a rival for Radio Corp. with which it has reciprocal patent licensing arrangements...
...comment in which sympathy and emotion replace the irony so easy to this kind of writing. After shooting his brother in an argument about a crap game, a Negro named Zeke turns preacher and converts the girl, Chick, who got him in the game. She beats up his rival with a poker, saying. "Ain't no one goin' to stand in my path to glory." This is the best line in Hallelujah, but Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes) has other good ones in the sermon in which, dressed as a locomotive engineer, he describes the cannonball express to hell...