Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reared in Iowa, once wished to be an author himself. But he was detoured from his yearnings by getting a job in a bank. The dignity from which he is now taken was the senior vice presidency of the Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago, whose only rival for the rank of greatest Chicago bank is the Illinois Merchants Trust...
Thin, tightlipped, square-shouldered, undistinguished outwardly save as young editors sometimes look alert and vigorous, Gerald P. Nye has done very well for himself without any of the paternal glamor that has assisted Robert Lafollette, aged 31, Nye's only rival for "youngster of the Senate." All things being equal, doubtless Senators Nye and Lafollette will reminisce together some decades from now in the august Chamber, over episodes of the mid-Nineteen-Twenties, which no one else then present will come any where near remembering...
...there is one weak spot it is concerned with comedy. James Barton, Ray Dooley, and Andrew Toombes have a few magnificently excruciating moments and far too few. Mr. Barton's dancing again proves that he has no rival for laughter below the knees. Greta Nissen, lured back from the movies, does a neat pantomime. The chorus is traditionally comely. In fact nearly everything about the show is excellent, except its massive length and breadth. Perhaps banting would help...
...once became a premier when an airplane killed his rival...
With the prestige of Poincaré assuring support from the Right, M. Briand turned to his confrere and rival of the Left, M. Edouard Herriot, for 21 years Mayor of Lyons, President of the Chamber of Deputies, leader of the Coalition of Left Parties, ousted from the Premiership (TIME, April 13, 20, 1925) when it was rumored that he had connived at juggling the accounts of the Finance Ministry to conceal inflation of the franc...