Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light satire which Booth Tarkington wrote, and it was called Magnolia. This is it again, cinemized, burlesqued. Of course it is entirely improbable, but most funny things are. Whereas there was once a lily livered young butterfly chaser, whose hat was stamped on by a rude bully of a rival and Whereas he did not promptly strike that rival dead, he was therefore turned out of the swaggering little Southern town of Magnolia, therefore he Resolved to become a devil among the Mississippi gamblers. A pull at a trigger is to him then as a flick of his deft cambric...
Republican and Democratic sentiment in the College will openly clash for the first time, when members of the Debating Union affiliated with Harvard's two rival political clubs debate the question "Resolved: That this house should condemn the present administration's foreign policy of isolation and non-cooperation, and criticize what cooperation has been undertaken," at the Faculty Room of the Union, this evening at o'clock. The meeting is open to all members of the University...
HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN?Realism taken to the heart of the Kentucky mountains, where a hypercritical religious exhorter seeks to wash out his rival's sins by turning a dam loose...
...does not kill him. Her royal keeper does not mind whom she loves so long as her tenderness for somebody makes her forget she has a fiery temperament to uphold. Thus, on a cynical note, ends an uneven revelation that a too passionate wooer can play right into his rival's hands. Despite its occasional irony, the play seems to be smitten with awe at moving among elegant folks in grand surroundings. With a first act that sparkles and others that go diminuendo, Miss Zoë Akins remains the broad-jumping playwright. She leaps off with a great rush...
...years this annual has chronicled the marriages, births, deaths and throne-changings of Europe. No rival has ever threatened its supremacy...