Word: vies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cerie castle, isolated in an Austrian wood with an atmosphere of heavily shadowed lighting and a background of student music, the two horror merchants settle many long-standing scores concerning wars and wives. Panels slide, black cats stalk, mysterious servants silently do their masters' bidding, and strong wills vie with each other. The loosely connected story fails to give even a logical order to the plot, and the result is an unconvincing succession of almost unrelated incidents designed to strike terror to the hearts of men. Even the "black cat" has nothing to do with the general action...
...French club has an exceptions kicker in Victor Casanova, while the return of Jose Mayoraga and vie Raring former football star will strengilien the Harvard lineup. The game on the best exhibitions of light play ver seen at Cambridge...
Under Books in your March 19 issue of TIME, you show a photograph of Lion Feuchtwanger, and I failed to see any resemblance to a "fat-cheeked rat," although I do not propose to vie with any member of TIME'S staff to detect a resemblance of a horseface, frog-face, pig-face, or fat-cheeked-rat"-face in man. If you really meant by this statement that his character was ratlike, why not be honest about...
Marking a climax in the winter activities of the Law School, the Pollock and Wilson Law Clubs reached the semi-final round of the Ames competition. The other four teams will vie for the remaining semi-final positions next week...
...such was the female style. There is a camera portrait of Mrs. August Belmont hugging her muff in the midst of a fake snowstorm. There are faro games, and the Klondike, Fanny Ward in "Pippino" and Maude Adams in "Rosemary". The drawing rooms of the Vanderbilts and the Astors vie in roccoco obscenity. Valeska Surrat displays the hour-glass silhouette which won her recognition as the Gibson girl and the enjoyment of generations to come. There is the Klondike, there are Carry Nation, Eugene Sandow, "bathing" suits, Floradora girls, Henry Ford, Jay Gould and a myriad more...