Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Matrimonial Bed. French farce is either very funny or, much oftener, practically fatal. Falling firmly into the latter class, this one deals with a wife twice married. The earlier husband, lost in amnesia, returns; remembers; stages an undressing race with his rival to see who can jump first into the ample piece of furniture cast for the title role...
...Stadium. These manoeuvres between the halves are at best but a gesture, and as such they were better not done at all than done ungracefully. If there are to be bands at football games, let them follow the accepted code of football bands, and return the compliments of rival musicians...
...undergraduate at a small New England college I have many times shouted myself hoarse as The Team came through with a hard-earned victory over a supposedly superior rival; and more often have I similarly cheered on The Team to the inevitable end of a hopeless contest as, outweighed many pounds to a man, worn out by the innumerable fresh substitutes of the opposition, exhausted by four periods of fighting against overwhelming odds, they have crawled of their hands and knees to the scrimmage line, put up a desperate stonewall defense in the shadow of the posts and prevented...
...Bergere. In his most recent Scandals, George White introduced the now virtually incessant Black Bottom. In Manhattan Mary, he supplies a prospective successor-the Five Step. Mr. White himself momentarily joins the cast to exhibit this gyration, recalling days when he was an humble hoofer** for his now greatest rival, Florenz Ziegfeld. This innovation is second only, in importance, to the appearance in the pit of Mr. Wynn leading the orchestra, in which process his back begins to itch-something that well trained conductors' backs never do. But Mr. Wynn's does, and he scratches...
...Patterson, daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of Liberty, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News to James Simpson Jr., son of James Simpson, president of Marshall Field & Co.; in Chicago. Best man was Robert S. Pirie, son of John T. Pirie, vice-president of Carson, Pirie, Scott, rival department store...