Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barry Was a Lady tells of a washroom attendant who wins $75,000 in a sweepstakes and tries to marry a nightclub singer. He drinks a Mickey Finn intended for his rival, and dreams that he is Louis XV and the singer Du Barry. This permits an unsurpassably false picture of court and boudoir high jinks at Versailles which, had they been true, would have considerably speeded up the Revolution...
...Item brought out a morning edition called the Tribune. Founded to help Publisher Thomson fight the Times-Picayune, the Tribune gave New Orleans its fourth daily (third was the Item's afternoon rival, the States) and made it one of the hottest competitive newspaper towns in the country. Within six years the Tribune was close behind the States in circulation, the Item and Tribune together outsold the Times-Picayune...
...twins. Sister No. 3 is beyond all reasonable doubt going to have a baby, but its father (John Garfield) committed suicide in Four Daughters. Without waiting for the baby to arrive, she curdles the thickening plot by marrying her unborn posthumous baby's father's rival (Jeffrey Lynn...
...first test of a usually green Varsity, but because they present the unusual and sometimes pathetic spectacle of some of Harvard's all-time aquatic here, Charlie Hutter, will take time off from his Medical School studies to compete in the sprint events, while his perpetual Alumni-meet rival, George "24-second" Scott, plans to thrash out a mighty 50 yards. Rusty Greenhood, last year's captain and League champion diver, will team with Bun Merriam, another former Crimson star, to features the strongest Alumni springboard pair in many years...
...giving Mr. Browder permission to speak the Yale administration has reaffirmed that belief in academic freedom which characterizes the liberal university. It is a pity that Harvard has fallen so far behind her traditional rival...