Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of the fact that the Syracuse team had defeated the Dartmouth players, who beat Harvard, and were generally conceded to have a decided edge, the Crimson booters displayed a superiority in all departments of the game...
...Hoover bets, was fed knock-out drops and virulent poison, robbed and left dead near a speakeasy. In Boston, Miss Gertrude Ryan, secretary to U. S. Representative George Tinkham, told the police that a carful of young Democrats crowded her automobile off the road, maltreated herself and sister, beat her nephew. In Worcester, Mass., a parade of 10,000 Hooverites was egged, bricked, undeterred...
...first time in my long career, I am embarrassed. Some time ago, in a moment of careless folly, I made a considerable wager on Yale to beat Princeton. Betting against Princeton has often proved economically unsound. Though it is great fun to make the wagers, paying them is not so pleasant. And today it seems to be on the cards for Princeton to mop up the Bowl with the Elis. If this eventuality occurs, the young Forecasts will go without footgear this winter and I myself will have to cut down to two cigars...
...stage headliner is Ted Lewis, assisted by his band. Fresh from a summer abroad, Lewis has more than his former dose of pomposity. But be that as it may, his music is A1. If you like a good slow beat, suddenly broken up by Tiger Rag or such. Ted Lewis is the man to give it to you. Emphasis on the brass has always been uppermost, both in the band and in Lewis' personality...
Dope. Eastern games were played last week in wet weather which made the ball as hard to hold as a small and angry pig. Columbia held Cornell for downs on the one inch line. Kenneth Provincial beat New York University for Georgetown by scuttling 87 yards for a touchdown. The population of Blair, Ohio, sat in the stands at Columbus, wearing ribbons and buttons, to watch Native Mike Miles of Princeton help score on Ohio State...