Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their quarrel arose because Miss Hix was jealous of his wife. Snook beat her four times over the head with an automobile hammer, cut her throat with a penknife, left her dead at a suburban rifle range where they had often trysted. Arrested, put on trial, Snook, cold, unmoved, said she had threatened to kill him, his wife, his young daughter, claimed he was emotionally insane, remembered nothing of his grisly deed. So vile was the testimony that no paper would publish it verbatim. Low-minded persons scavanged the official transcript, printed pamphlets omitting no horrid word, sold them...
...Oceanic was laid down, super-size rather than superspeed was the boast of luxury ships. For 22 years the trans-Atlantic speed record had been held unmolested by Cunard's gallant Mauretania while ship after ship surpassed her in size. Last month, however, Germany's new Bremen beat the old Mauretania (TIME, July 29), set a new trans-Atlantic liner record, suddenly made speed once more the public's test in judging a liner's smartness, her éclat. If the 60,000-ton Oceanic begun by Princess Mary should appear on the seas the year...
Last week scores of costly marine playthings sported along the Atlantic seaboard. In the final, climactic race of the New York Yacht Club cruise, Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, persistent vacationist, piloted Gerard B. Lambert's Vanitie to beat George M. Pynchon's Istalena for the King of England...
...golfer myself," said Linkster Boyd, "but if I ever get a crack at Kaufmann I'll prove they grow better golfers on Pittsburgh's links." His "crack" came in the semifinals. Champion Kaufmann won, 3 & 2. In the 36-hole final round Champion-Kaufmann kept his championship, beat solemn Milton Concrant, Toledo mailman...
...daily port-to-port races as the cruise progressed?Morris Cove to Greenport, Greenport to Montauk, etc. etc.? arch-competitors were the celebrated Vanitie and Resolute, big international cup racers. The Resolute, owned by E. Walter Clarke of Philadelphia, beat Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV, in 1920. Lately, and last week, she has lost consistently to the Vanitie, which Gerald Lambert bought last year from Harry Payne Whitney...