Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is but one bitter fruit in the overflowing cup Harvard may bring forth a future Gilbert: Tony's rival may be nodding in some Churca Street stable and some Fogg aesthete may design a bathroom to suit de Mille's taste--but never, on never, never, can Harvard yield a Greta Garbo...
...lads amuse themselves throwing rocks, shooting craps, fighting gang against gang with clubs, stones, bottles, telling jokes, holding a section of street against invasion by a rival gang, stealing, cop-baiting, hanging around poolrooms, attending cheap cinema shows, begging pennies, playing poker, drinking liquor, accepting the solicitations of older uptown girls...
...underpinning of steel corsets, straw-hatted, ride to the scene of mobilization on tandem bicycles. Among them is Mary, "San Antonio belle and sweetheart of the regiment" (Mary Astor). For her love, poor timid, countryboy, Bert Henley (Charles Emmett Mack), and wealthy Manhattan clubman, Stewart Van Brunt (Charles Farrell), rival, quarrel, then fight. Their private scrap is too puny, decrees Colonel Roosevelt. Let them bunk, ride, drill, march together through the entire campaign, and make the best...
...fierce battle of San Juan Hill, Van Brunt carries his wounded comrade safely to the hospital tent, where Bert surrenders Mary's U. S. flag to his more fortunate rival before he dies. But it was Bert whose hysteria in rushing upon the enemy without orders, precipitated the charge that drove the Spaniards from the hill...
Goaded by the announcement that a special brand of beer was being used by the Cambridge University crew at their training quarters, Richmond-on-the-Thames, England (TIME, March 14), the president of the rival Oxford eight, also in training, made a statement in behalf of his men. They would drink dark beer during the training period as a matter of course; would sip port on alternate nights; once a week indulge in champagne...