Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, at least temporarily, restrained from making a stage appearance by the City Council of Vienna which delayed and temporized when besought to issue a license by her manager. Finally, lest the powers of darkness should triumph, a deputation of rival Christian Socialists waited upon their great but dour leader, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria, and besought him to "prevent the nude, brazen-faced and heathen dances of Fraeulein Josephine Baker from taking place anywhere in Austria." Chancellor Seipel, perhaps reliably informed that Miss Baker always wears some article of adornment when she dances, sternly cut short a Deputy...
Engaged. Howard Fisher, youngest of the seven brothers of the Fisher Body Corp. fame; to Miss Justine Price, daughter of the late Lawrence Price, head of the Auto Body Co., onetime leading rival of the Fisher Corp., of Lansing, Mich...
...baton F.E. Cummings '30, who handed a 30 yard lead to W.C. Peet '28. V.L. Hennessey '80 was the Harvard anchor man facing Captain C.B. Meagher, who gave everything he had for the engineers, cutting down the lead steadily as the bell sounded for the final lap. Feeling his rival at his shoulder Hennessey gave one last spurt, and crossed the line, defeating Meagher by about 12 inches. The race was run in 3 minutes, 33 3-5 seconds...
...University Hockey team will take to the ice for its first practice after a layoff during the mid-year examination period, this afternoon, preparing to meet two rival outfits next week...
...more quickly than action by the legislature, this week sees the appearance in Boston of two men, eminently worth while, culturally speaking, who if box office returns are to be trusted, will fill two of the largest auditoriums in Boston--Emil Ludwig and Count Keyserling. That such visitors can rival "Bossy" Gillis as a drawing card shows that the spark of culture, at least, is not lacking, and proves once more the advantage which Harvard men enjoy over their collegues in institutions more richly endowed by nature but not in educational opportunity...