Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Englishmen the whole affair appealed chiefly as an excruciating, inverted Scotch joke; but a larger significance loomed in the fact that the two groups which bid for The Aberdeen Journal are the gigantic, rival newspaper trusts headed respectively by Viscount Rothermere and by the Berry Brothers, Sir William & Corner...
...African native village, recovering from injuries and waiting for her wealthy baronet to send her a "Moth" to replace the one whose motor had stalled and which had catapulted her into this hot and wearisome metropolis of the jungle. Lady Mary wanted to get to Cape Town, whence her rival had started, before Lady . Sophie got to London, whence she, Lady Mary, had started. Lady Mary spoke rudely to the blackamoors who served her; she looked over the close trees of the forests, into the wide, vacant sky, blanketed with heavy clouds...
Last fortnight, Lady Mary hovered over the landing field at Cape Town, almost afraid to come down and hear that her rival had reached London and the record before her arrival. When she landed, she received different news. Lady Sophie had left Cairo in a huff and gone to London, not by plane, but by boat and express train. Lady Mary smiled with the pride of a perilous victory. Then, after 12 days' delay so that she might keep up the pretense that her London to South Africa jaunt had been undertaken for reasons of business rather than aeronautical...
...however, the CRIMSON and the Princetonian succeed in hastening a renewal of this old acquaintanceship their efforts are to be commended. Shaking hands and cancelling old grudges is a more delicate maneuver for rival athletic associations than it is for quarrelsome small boys, but in this case little excuse remains for a longer postponement of the truce. Vale Daily News...
...sentiment at New Lecture Hall was undoubtedly pro-Smith, as the presidential poll early in the spring indicated; but the sudden acquisition of strength to Baker, comparable as an opposition candidate to McAdoo in 1924, brought matters to an impasse. Once again, the balance swung between Smith and his rival; once again the desperate efforts of proselyting delegates failed to bring victory to the Governor; once again a tired assemblage decided on a third candidate, and somewhat uncertainly united the two combatting factions...