Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beef tin. An hour later pro-Nazi, Hitler-decorated Secretary of the Navy Leon Lorenzo Scasso expediently glossed over the affair: "A fire, source unknown." Threatened by a strong tendency toward native Fascism from within, alarmed by President Vargas' utterances as head of its most important rival for South American leadership, faced by a 30% decrease of European markets since the outbreak of the war (although trade with Britain is way up), Argentina too turned to the U. S. for help. French-educated Foreign Minister Jose M. Cantilo, always before an advocate of an Argentine-controlled South American bloc...
Last week the Brothers Warner released their biggest picture of 1940 with loud protestation that it would rival Gone With the Wind. It picturized Rachel Field's best-selling ventilation of certain Parisian scandals concerning her great-aunt by marriage. This unhappy tale, long locked away among the respectable annals of the New England Field family, was soon devoured by avid U. S. novel readers to the number...
...family when he was eight, in school and church set a long-standing record for juvenile deportment. Not long after he went to work as a reporter, he stood for vice president of the Toronto Press Club, put up posters reading: "Plewman for Vice." Up went placards by his rival: "What does Plew man know about vice?" He was defeated...
...result of the cleanup was to drive gamblers to nearby De Soto County, Miss. Tall, smooth Bob Berryman trekked to De Soto, opened the Paddock (dining, dancing, gambling). A rival house was the Shanty. Memphis newspapers reported the Paddock gambling; the De Soto sheriff said he had never heard of it. Last fortnight the Shanty was raided and closed; the Paddock was not bothered. Word went about that Bob Berryman had talked with the sheriff, but the sheriff denied it. A second-string gambler and gorilla named John Phillips blustered that Bob Berryman was trying to be tsar of gaming...
...maestro, this was not unmixed good news. Platinum-mopped Leopold Stokowski began raising an "All American Youth Orchestra" last winter, planned also to make a South American tour-for good will. Since last spring, Stokowski has professed to be undaunted by Toscanini's rival junket, has apparently not been bothered by the prospect that South Americans, always sensitive to any sort of patronizing from the North, might be averse to the good will of a band of U. S. youngsters...