Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flamingo Road (Warner) sends Joan Crawford traveling, somewhat wearily, down the well-beaten Hollywood trail of rags-to-riches. This time the trail begins in a small town when Joan ditches her job with a broken-down carnival and meets up romantically with Deputy Sheriff Zachary Scott. Next she gets a respectable job as a local waitress. Before she ends up in the town's biggest mansion, as the wife of the state's biggest politico (David Brian), she has to take a series of plot hurdles and heartbreaks. Biggest hurdle of all is Scott's vicious...
...sophomore that year, Wolcott compiled a 5-2 record and was the League's most effective pitcher with a 1.08 earned run average. Last year he lipped to 3-8 and so far this season he has stopped Vilanova (no a three-hit shutout) and Muhlenberg, and has been beaten by Navy. Totally blind in one eye, Wolcott has excellent control and can hit the corners well...
Competition has always been keen for this Last-named laurel. Last year miss Massachusetts, now Mrs. James M. Graham, displayed a thrifty cavegirl garb but was beaten out by a Daisy Mac wearing shorts...
...University police officer, aided by several Cambridge police, made the arrest as Hollingshead was being beaten...
Behind the high mahogany bar in Lima's Hotel Bolivar, the bartender poured a slug of water-clear liquor into a silver shaker, added lime juice, sugar, beaten white of egg, and ice, shook hard, then poured the mixture into a small glass. When Angostura had been sprinkled on the top, another pisco sour was ready for -the pre-luncheon crowd filling up Lima's best-known meeting place...