Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Probable designer-Frank C. Paine, one-time partner, now rival, of Designer Burgess...
...American Legion, which had protested President Hoover's suspension of cruiser construction, the President last week wrote: ". . . This is a forward step of the first importance. ... It is far better to at least try to establish [parity] by agreement before we resign ourselves to establish it by rival construction programs. ... I fear you have been misinformed as to the actual problems that lie before us, for they are far more intricate and difficult than can be solved by the simple formula which you suggest...
...Story. Wolf Brassen said farewell to the paradise of childhood at 14, in 1909, in the southeastern edge of the Harz. Summering there, his father, his friend, his sweetheart, his would-be rival, all unconsciously matured the high-school student. Wolf's father, however, wished to keep him a child, continually worried about Wolf's getting wet feet. The boy felt he would like a country of real dangers, of snakes and apes and Indians-somewhere he could play gallant to slim, brown Suzanne. Of course he "hadn't much use for females," but here...
Murray Anderson's Almanac promises to rival Earl Carroll's Sketchbook (TIME, July 15) with seekers of chorus girls, guffaws and 4-4 time. Its writers include A. E. Thomas, playwright, Rube Goldberg and Ring W. Lardner, funnymen. It will serve to frame fat, raucous Trixie Friganza and Jimmy Savo, small comic. A modernized version of A Temperance Town, oldtime comedy by Charles Hoyt, will include incidental tunes. George M. Cohan will smilingly assume the stage as author and actor in Gambling...
...however, is really his most important one. He, head of the Sprague Publishing Co., has since 1908 been editor and publisher of the largest magazine for youths, the American Boy. Last week Mr. Ellis further increased his tasks by purchasing and merging with his American Boy its biggest rival, Youth's Companion...