Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...naming a Senator from Michigan. James Couzens does not hide his person and his opinions beneath many bushels of reticence or modesty. But the name of the other Senator from Michigan? The slender, slightly stooped man of 75, with snow-white hair and academic features? The venerable schoolteacher who beat out Henry Ford as Michigan's "favorite son" at the National Democratic Convention four years ago? He joined his colleague on the front pages of the newspapers last week. While Senator Couzens was peevishly demanding Secretary Mellon's resignation, Senator Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, twice elected "good gray governor" of Michigan...
...Horemans' run was formidable to the audience and it seemed likely now that a foreigner would beat the great Schaefer. The day before, Horemans had run off 345; Schaefer was already behind; to beat Horemans now would be hard, almost impossible...
Already this season having kept their time & wits to the visiting leadership of visiting Frit?, Busch, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Arthur Rodzinski, Evgene Goossens, Maurice Ravel-the facile musicians of the New York Symphony Orchestra last week beat, blew & bowed to the conducting of Oskar Fried, guest from Berlin on his first conductorial visit...
...last week at a tempo & pressure that made, for example, his finale of Brahm's C Minor Symphony the fulminant of a Manhattan explosion of applause. The players were both glad that they were done with him and proud that their skill had met his demands. For the beat of his baton brevets a player an artist...
...failure of the rebellion was the beginning of a tragic and surprising war; battles were fought under the smoky sky, fugitives hid in the soft stillness of the mountains. A succession of dark generals led their ebony soldiers to cruel and bewildering victories. Ugly Toussaint, who beat a Napoleonic army, was captured and sent far away to die. Clumsy Jean Jaques Dessalines made himself emperor of the black island and imported two ballet masters to teach him how to dance; before he had time to learn, a soldier murdered him. Henry Christophe, the billiard marker, during all this time...