Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even if your painting flops completely, Churchill philosophically concluded, there is no harm done except to your own ego. "And then you can always go out and kill some animal, humiliate some rival on the links, or despoil some friend across the green table...
Explosions in a Cellar. For four weeks, patrons of New York's Paramount Theater have been pinned against its back wall by Stan Kenton's klaxon-loud "progressive" blasts. Dizzy Gillespie, the high cockalorum of bop, was getting top billing at the rival Strand Theater. At 52nd and Broadway, the intersection of commercial acumen and "art" in popular music, the Clique Club opened its doors and let the mob in. Buddy Rich, a Tommy Dorsey alumnus and bop fellow traveler, shot spectacular explosions from his drums, and a velvet-skinned Negro named Sarah Vaughan squeezed her toothpaste-smooth...
...Lear. Copey had one great rival in the English department-George Lyman Kittredge. He was a stormy lecturer, now prancing across his dais like a mad Lear, now hurling his pointer across the room as if it were a spear. When someone asked him how long it took him to prepare a lecture, he answered, "Just a lifetime-can't you see that?" If a student fearfully quoted the dictionary pronunciation of a word to him, Kitty would whip out an old envelope to jot it down. "That's wrong," he would murmur, "I'll see that...
This year Cabot will rival Barnard's traditional right to remain the only Annex dormitory which goes caroling the college officials. The Cabot group will sing along Cambridge cobblestones next Wednesday evening, two days after Barnard choristers serenade the deans...
...Woodruff, who ferried his press from Tennessee by canoe. "Mister J.N." Heiskell, who also came from Tennessee, has run it for the last 46 years. He has fought against governors and utilities, and for equal (but separate) opportunities for Negroes. He hates monopoly journalism; the Gazette once bought the rival Democrat, but Heiskell soon got them divorced. He likes to tell fellow Southern publishers that if they don't spend money to get good editorial pages, they shouldn't blame their readers for not reading them. His own editorials (which he reads aloud to make sure they...