Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Herald Tribune, outstanding G. 0. P. organ in the East, published a "piece" about Nominee Smith written by Arthur Brown Ruhl, a correspondent seasoned by a quarter-century of political writing in the U. S. and abroad. It was not a "piece" calculated to help Hoover beat Smith. It was an honest effort by Writer Ruhl to report on Nominee Smith as he saw him. Excerpts: "There is something intensely real about 'Al' Smith . . . something alive, dynamic, go-ahead-reality in a spiritual sense. . . . "The late President Harding, let us say, presented a façade which...
...President (Mrs.) Ella A. Boole of the W. C. T. U. "We will show our appreciation," said she. Dr. S. E. Nicholson, secretary of the Anti-Saloon League, put it the other way around. He promised that anti-salooners would spend $250,000 in New York State alone to beat Democrat Smith...
Setsu Matsudaira, fiancee of Prince Chichibu, who is brother of the Emperor and heir apparent to the throne of Japan, tripped gracefully from the Shinyomaru, sheltered herself behind her father, Japanese ambassador to the U. S. Buddhist pilgrims beat incessantly upon their hand drums and invoked the heavenly Lotus. Yokohama school children piped shrill greetings to the girl who may be their Empress. Only Prince Chichibu, restrained by chill etiquette, remained in Tokyo, impatiently awaited his betrothed...
...here once more an unknown golfer became dangerous. Farrell had finished a sensational round that left him in a tie with Jones at 294 and beat Hagen who had 296, when news came to the clubhouse that one Roland Hancock, 200-pound 22-year-old son of a Wilmington, N. C., professional, had gone out in 33 and was rounding the turn ahead of everybody. Hancock took a five at the tenth, then played par golf until at the seventeenth green he saw the crowd billowing over the turf to meet him and escort him back the new champion. With...
...regatta of the New York Yacht Club. The tallest, slimmest and most famous of them all, Harry Payne Whitney's Vanitie, always sails against the Resolute and often wins. This time it won but was disqualified for failing to cross the starting line properly. At Southport, Conn., Princeton beat Yale and Harvard in a race of eight-metre boats...