Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affairs so little, that he often, without forethought has exposed to strangers confidential reports on which his associates have spent hours of labor. Yet he does not thereby endanger the success of his hotel business, for he has worked out a formula for building and operating hotels which no rival, no matter how well instructed, has been able to duplicate...
...bosom. He painted to please his patrons, to make a living. He still pleases the patrons of Sir Joseph Duveen, and the sale of one of his portraits makes the living of a dozen dealers. In his lifetime he had one enemy -Reynolds. He had no rivals. Sir Joshua and Gainsborough were his superiors; they never stooped to rival him, Yet secretly they envied, even then, his popularity. Sir Joshua in his later period (he was eight years older than Romney) would not speak of him by name. He said, "The Man in Cavendish Square. . . ." Romney never retaliated by branding...
...great has been the success of this campaign of ominous warning, that a fortnight ago a rival dentifrice-maker was driven to spread across an entire page of the Saturday Evening Post, a retaliatory question: "IS PYORRHEA BEING OVER-EMPHASIZED...
...stroke was bold and probably judicious. For months the rival factions in the Chamber have played party politics while the franc fell-have displayed the acumen of drunkards gambling in a burning saloon. Not to stake all upon forcing some definite program to an issue, was to court more months of mad trifling while the franc collapsed. Moreover a precedent had been established for franc-saving-by-dictatorship only a few days before, when the Belgian Parliament buried its party differences, and all but unanimously conferred dictatorial power upon King Albert (See BELGIUM...
...such lofty principles that his last Ministry was overthrown (TIME, April 20, 1925), when it was discovered that he had countenanced tampering with the books of the Bank of France, arose, not to urge any program of his own to save the franc, but solely to upset his rival, M. Briand, and enemy, M. Caillaux, whose notorious reputation has made him suspect of many Frenchmen (TIME, July...