Word: beated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon waned, dinnertime came, then night, but still the Deficiency herdsman stuck to the floor: explaining, arguing, wheedling votes. Hot Senatorial tempers kept the galleries lathered with laughter. But Adams and his adjournment-bent majority held their lines, beat off all amendments, brought the Third Deficiency Bill safely through the gauntlet...
...reached their knees, learned that bathing suits must carry knee-length skirts and have tops that reach the neck. Penalty for less bathing suit: $18 fine. Women cannot lie down on Spanish beaches, and men must wear tops as well as trunks. Last year Pugilist Paolino Uzcudun tried to beat the law by swimming in a dinner suit and top hat, was hauled off to court for making fun of the rules, released when he proved there was no law forbidding swimming in evening clothes...
...Bellairs and his colleagues on the police beat used to accost farmers bringing produce to the city, demand a license for each separate vegetable, give the frightened farmers mock trials in the press room at headquarters, fine them, buy whiskey with the booty...
...COUNSELLOR-J. J. Connington-Little, Brown ($2). An English Voice of Experience hunts for a missing girl and stumbles into a pleasant and exhilarating murder case. Merits: a neatly involved plot; an engaging new sleuth (Mark Brand, "The Counsellor"). Fault: readers can beat the author to the solution...
...birds and animals (to his white pigeons he had tiny flutes fastened, which whistled musically as they flew), worked when he felt like it at sculpture, writing, painting. La Napoule's villagers regarded his wealth, his largesse and his talent with open admiration; celebrities from far and near beat a path to his door...