Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actions of the prosecution. Said Mr. Justice Swift, in his charge to the jury: "I would have you recall that if 9, crime is committed in secret, secret methods may have to be adopted in order to find it out. . . . Whether the defendants are being prosecuted by a rival political party or not is of no significance. ... If guilty, they are guilty, whether the prosecuting party be Conservative, Labor, Liberal or Socialist...
Died. Horace Andrew Saks, 43, co-founder and Vice President of the famed department store, Saks & Co.; at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Manhattan, of septic poisoning. In leading Manhattan dailies he was publicly mourned in paid advertisements by rival merchants- Abraham & Straus, Stern Bros., Lord & Taylor, James McCreery & Co., Franklin Simon & Co., Gim- bel Bros., Oppenheim-Collins...
...good old melodramatic vehicles of disillusioned love and hasty murder, without availing himself of the full dramatic value docruing from an African atmosphere. It is because of this that, while it may possibly attract large audience to the Copley for several weeks to come, it cannot hope to rival "White Cargo" in effective and thought provoking morbidness...
...make a second at chess. "But I do not play chess", remonstrates the landlady, "I only play checkers!" "That makes no difference", retorts the other, "come let us play." Whereupon they sit down and play a game of chess. The significance of this is obvious. In real life, the "rival stage", a knowledge of chess is necessary before you can play the game. But in the world of illusions, in the life of the theatre you can play chess without knowing the difference between a king and a pawn. To play a game of chess on the stage...
...afternoon comes rather as an anti-climax following last week's ding-dong tie battle with Yale. Neither the University nor Yale can win the league title, but the outcome of today's match may settle both the leadership and the cellar position in the final standing of the rival soccer outfits...