Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief Pontiac. THE INDIAN DRUM Away by the lake hangs an Indian drum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" It always starts booming when the wind gods hum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" Whenever a wreck on the beach is toss'd, It gives one beat for each life that is lost, And ghosts are legion that have heard the turn That rolls from the head of the Indian drum. It keeps its vigil with a measured thrum- "Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!" And never in the records has a wrong beat come- "Turn...
...President returned, the Cabinet, the Supreme Court, Senators, Representatives, army officers, foreign envoys stood by for the simple funeral service. The President sat motionless, with bowed head, in a damask-covered gilt chair. His eyes followed the casket as it was borne away from the White House to the beat of muffled drums for its last journey to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Social engagements at the White House (including the Cabinet dinner and the Diplomatic reception) were cancelled for 30 days. The President ordered all flags half-staffed, broke an ancient tradition by having the White House flag lowered halfway...
Seaton Pippin, famed hackney mare owned by Paul Moore of Morristown, N.J., beat all hackney mares her own age and then all hackneys of any age for the hackney championship...
...lost $1,200,000 in October. Once before he had lost $1,000,000, had gone to a sanitarium. In Scranton (Pa.), Carl S. Motiska, civil engineer, saturated his clothing with gasoline, lighted it, burned to death. His wife died several hours later from burns she received trying to beat out the flames. To contradict rumors of a suicide wave, New York authorities showed that in Manhattan there were only 44 from Oct. 13-Nov. 15, as compared to 53 last year...
Harvard wanted to save its regulars for Yale but had to put them in to beat a tough, unmannerly little team from Worcester, Mass. Harvard 12, Holy Cross...