Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over the publicity Deceived by Miss Sally Kunsig of Mount Vernon, N. Y., whom he often goes to see at Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, Mass.) and who, after he had escorted her to Amherst's "senior hop" last fortnight, was hailed in the press as the successful rival of Miss Florence Trumbull, daughter of Connecticut's Governor...
...makes big money in musical comedy. In part, she owes her success to an intent but unscrupulous young man-about-town who has stolen the money to pay for her theatrical ventures. Infuriated when she refuses to marry him, this suitor goes to the South Seas to kill his rival but remains to convince him that the lady has deceived both of them in her greed for gold. Accordingly they decoy her to the South Seas that they may punish her for so doing. Eventually, when her innocence becomes apparent, her first inamorata punches the young man-about-town, apologizes...
With Morenz and Joliat pounding the puck so steadily into opponents' nets the Canadians lead the International Division by a safe margin. The only U. S. team, New York Americans, is a bad last. The rival league is led by Manhattan's other team, the New York Rangers, trailed closely by Boston, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Chicago...
...Andrew Marvin, lonely Honest Man, is presented through the reverent chronicles of his five children (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Ruth). He emerges hard-hitting, high-minded, bad-tempered. Fighting heavily, with more goodwill than technique, he is defeated time and again by the subtler feints of a canny rival editor, a burly bartender, a cautious banker. His children, with the exception of the faithful Ruth, leave him stranded on his editorial high ground. The relentless climax of Marvin's failure gives dignity to a rather repetitious tale of puny struggles and mean treacheries...
...justified the chance. Not a ship did he destroy without first removing the crew and offering them the very good hospitality of his own vessel. It would be gratifying if the same praise might be said of the hospitality of his subsequent captors. His deeds of daring rival the tales of days before mud and trenches, and cast a much needed glow of romance on the dismal panorama of a sordid...