Word: vies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of the little grisette who, coming to Paris with much beauty and no money, sets out upon the primrose path. Just what particular gentleman is paying for her sumptuous lodgings, her lace-hung bath, and her carriage is left indefluite, but there is no doubt that all vie for the privilege. After meeting at a carnival, Marguerite Gautier (Yvonne Printemps) and her idealistic young lover, Armand Duval, escape to a cottage in the campagne. An admirable restraint marks the scene in which Armand's father persuades Marguerite to return to Paris, and the final reconciliation in which Armand finds...
With Harvard's prospects for the Intercollegiate League championship depending directly on the outcome of three crucial encounters this weekend, the Crimson nine will vie with a hard-hitting Cornell aggregation in a doubleheader on Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock today, while an important return clash with the Indians is scheduled for the same time tomorrow...
...victorious gold-coasters will travel to New Haven today to vie with the victorious Yale College team...
...feature event for Crimson fans will be the 1500-meter run in which Captain Jack Scheu will vie with Gene Venzke of Penn, one of the best of the nation's milers. Venzke will win with record-breaking time if he is to win at all, for Scheu will probably do even better than he did in last week's record...
Twenty-five of Harvard's best skiers, graduate and undergraduate, will vie with Dartmouth this Sunday at noon in the last and one of the most spectacular races of the season, a slalom course down the head-wall of Tuckerman's Ravine...