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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the superior powers of Mr. Wells will probably triumph in the end Mr. Bigelow's forcible style can make some telling points. In any event, the quarrel has promise of the acrimonious personalities which always please the bystander. Although not masterpieces of literature the rival invectives have the morbid appeal of a scandal sheet. The dog-fighting portion of the intelligentsia hopes that the quarrel will be long and litter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LITERARY DOG FIGHT | 1/19/1926 | See Source »

...Parliament assembled last week, Canadians placed many a bet on robust, hearty Premier King and on his traditional rival, sleek, meticulous, former Premier Meighen. The odds stood at about 3 to 1 that the urban aristocrat, Meighen, cannot politically, unhorse Countryman King, who has "broken in" many a horse of flesh and blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: In Canada | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...CHIEF OF POLICE NADOSSY AND PRINCE WINDISCH-GRAETZ TEARFULLY CONFESS TO COUNTERFEITING 30,000,000,000 FRENCH FRANCS! Possible Fascist Putsch to Set up Archduke Albrecht of Hapsburg as Kaiser of Hungary Nipped by French Detectives! Premier Count Stephen Bethlen Believed Well Pleased at Developments, Which May Discredit His Rival, the Regent of Hungary, Nicholas Horthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Counterfeiters | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...fact," he said in conclusion, "the moving picture is the ambassador of America throughout the globe. We have no rival. That is why pictures are shown even in the most thinly populated countries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WANTS COLLEGE MEN TO ENTER THE MOVIES | 1/13/1926 | See Source »

Briefs are due three weeks from the date on which the facts are given out and the arguments come four weeks from the same date. The week before the arguments will be given over to examining the briefs of the rival clubs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 1/9/1926 | See Source »

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