Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humor became more serious as the comments ran to the personal and untrue. What before had been mere rivalry now turned into hate with each side attempting to outvie the other. Words turned to threats and jokes to nasty accusations. One of those teams then tried to replace her rival with another for the ensuing year. Open hostility glowed warmly on both sides and plans were laid for that game of 1926. Undergraduates and older men alike girded their loins for battle. And then it broke. The pent-up fury of heated anger gave way to better judgment. Old friendships...
...this scene the lanky, linen-suited figure of Will Rogers, as Judge Priest, blends admirably well. The good judge dispenses juleps as well as justice, and tempers the letter with the spirit of the law. But at length his benevolent reign is threatened by the presence of a political rival in the person of a blustering, sycophantic old ex-senator. Moreover, the family of young Rome, (Tom Brown) objects to his affection for the town school teacher, (Anita Louise) who, though pretty, is not of quality folks. Anita Louise, in this role, reminds one of magnolia blossoms in the spring...
...Paramount's and Universal's, had been smuggled across the Channel to London, were being shown throughout the British Isles. So impressive were they that New York Times Correspondent Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. found meat for a glowing front-page two-column story on the work of a rival news medium...
...Manhattan, rival society newshawks combed morgues, thumbed notebooks, hounded social secretaries to see who could compile the longest list of 1934-35 débutantes. Out in front was Hearst's American which found 355 in Greater New York. To accompany his fat list Hearst Columnist Maury Henry Biddle Paul ("Cholly Knickerbocker") wrote an earnest, last-minute message, complete with his annual "Don't's," to the mothers of Park Avenue. Excerpts...
...whose walls are covered with photographs of Greek gods, proteges of Neudorf and other examples of perfect physical development. He has taken moving pictures of some of his classes turning handsprings, twisting themselves into triangles and hopping around with the abandon of sylphs. But none of these productions can rival the gilded photographs of Neudorf himself, resplendent in tights which conceal beneath their briefness the body of the "only perfect...