Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tongues the praises of Premier Mussolini and Premier Poincaré and keeps the Red bogey of Bolshevism dangling horrifically before English eyes. By owning some ?400,000 worth of strategically placed shares, he controls ?24,000,000 worth of newspaper enterprises. With the only man who might become his rival, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, he has a quiet gentlemanly agreement whereby they jointly own, but Baron Beaverbrook controls, the Daily Express and Evening Standard. Third of the London news titans whose newspapers are really national is Sir William Berry, who controls the Daily Graphic (Independent) and dabbles much...
...fact that Great Britain is eventually going to recognize the Cantonese Government at Wuchang." Meanwhile from Canton there set out Mrs. Sun Yatsen, widow of the first President of China (Jan.-Feb. 1912), famed revolutionary statesman Dr. Sun Yatsen, who founded the Cantonese Government (1917) as a rival to Peking, but died in Peking (1925) before the recent Cantonese conquest of the whole southern half of China. With Widow Sun Yat-sen a devout widow, traveled the brilliant and astute Soviet Russian agent Michael Borodin. M. Borodin has been the intermediary between Moscow and Canton since before the death...
...three acts the audience and the authors worry themselves with the question, "Will Tommy get her?", and it takes the combined efforts of his rival Bernard, politican Uncle Dave, and a quart of something-or-other to put Tommy over for the winning score. The plot is as old as the theatre. There's a little French play of one act in which two old fathers conspire to marry the daughter of one to the son of the other. The key line is classic, "Marriage without obstacles isn't tempting to two such young simpletons." So the fathers fight...
...makes the evening both musical and comic. A cinema actress seeking escape from an annoying, unbusinesslike producer, visits her graceful dancing and tinkling song upon Pleasantville, Kan., where she works as a skimp-skirted waitress. The hero, disguised as a mere reporter, is in reality vice president of a rival film corporation. Love. In the end, everybody marries. The real show is "Peachy" Robinson (Joe E. Brown), rustic Sherlock Holmes. His sleuthing is most unaccountably absurd, occasions a fusillade of wisecracks. Actor Brown's mouth is the dentist's dream. Two human fists can enter here, wiggle around...
...undefeated. Against the Dartmouth Freshmen and St. Paul, the former Middlesex luminary was especially brilliant, standing off repeated assaults to give his mates a chance to come out at the big end of the horn by a narrow margin. Adams, who for a long time was Morrill's chief rival for the goal position on the 1928 team, was sick during the greater part of his Freshman year Last year he alternated with Morrill as Cummings substitute, and this year be is again fit to give Morrill a run for the goal position. He has had considerable experience at Exeter...