Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illustrated had been out just five days when it found a rival: War Pictorial. Published by Bernard Jones Publications, Ltd. (whose Radio Pictorial and Football Forecast folded when war began), the Pictorial was guaranteeing a circulation of 200,000. It had 32 pages too, all gravure, with shots of the Westwall, the British Navy, the Royal Family, but no pictures...
...Hugh Johnson and Boake Carter. In the New York World-Telegram Harry Elmer Barnes called down a plague on both Europe's houses: "The lip service paid to democracy is only a fake frosting to obscure the underlying imperialism. . . . The current conflict ... is in reality a clash of rival imperialisms...
...they allowed themselves to be ruled by a Nazi Government" (see "White Papers" p. 38). But Prime Minister Chamberlain did not say what the House had nerved itself to hear, that Britain had declared war. Before Mr. Chamberlain left he spoke to Winston Churchill, usually his critic, always his rival, occasionally his enemy. Said Mr. Chamberlain to Mr. Churchill: "I would be most grateful if you'll help...
...Cagney were inaccurately rumored to be at each others throats while making Each Dawn I Die, and similar apocryphal stories were circulated about Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins during production of The Old Maid. Prima Donna Shearer, for purely professional reasons, saw to it that she was billed above rival Prima Donna Crawford, stipulated that her name should be advertised in type half as large as the title and twice as large as that of Lesser Luminary Russell. But if this precaution stirred any bad blood, fat, high-voiced Director George Cukor, an understanding specialist in the ways of feminine...
...rival for the Queen Mary (81,235 tons) or the Normandie (83,423 tons). America's tonnage compares with The Netherlands' Nieuw Amsterdam...