Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jumped out. One sprinted 100 yards, fell on his face on the pavement-dead, full of little holes. The other floundered across a vacant lot, died with seven bullets in his flesh. . . . They, Frank Koncil and Charles Hrubek, were members of "Polack Joe" Saltis' bootlegging gang. Rival thugs had killed them. This was only another episode in Chicago's intramural liquor war, which has killed more than 100 gangsters,* an assistant district attorney, a lawyer and a few police-men in the last two years. It ends the treaty of peace, signed last October by greasy chieftains...
...Walter J. Travis, onetime champion golfer, was in the habit of smoking long, slender, virulent stogies during his matches. The ventilation of these stogies, it was said, became especially active on the putting green. It was darkly hinted that the stogies lent Mr. Travis strength while temporarily discomfiting his rival...
These quintets plus the University and Freshman teams find over 300 men playing basketball regularly, and indicate that within a short time the activity will rival squash in popularity as a winter indoor sport...
...same week a rival revivalist, the kindly Billy Sunday, arrived in Atlanta, Ga., with a few practical interpretations of the Scriptures. He commented that Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and his "pack of pretentious, pliable, mental perverts [Modernists] are dedicated to the destruction of religion and one and all are lia,rs, so labeled by the authority of Almighty God." He called for the expulsion of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University...
...match was played in the course of which golf-etiquette was hilariously, enjoyably violated. Twenty-one ladies foregathered, chose up sides. Each lady was then allotted one club, shape and style determined by drawing slips of paper from a hat. The teams crowded around the first tee as their rival captains prepared to drive. Suddenly a premeditated bedlam broke loose. Ladies hooted, screamed, blew tin whistles, danced, threw clubs in air, did their utmost to superinduce inaccuracy among the opposition. Nothing save outright mayhem was barred. The match (two-ball) continued, team members shooting in rotation, regardless of allotted implements...