Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge intention was clear enough. In the four months since the President first shut his door it had been pried wide again. Now he had shut it again. He chose not to lock it. He chose not to anticipate contingencies or to answer his own question: "Who could beat Al Smith if I didn...
Investigation appeared to show that Mr. Keller had rashly interrupted a meeting of Nationalist students, by exhorting them against violence from the balcony of their hall. Students flung him down to those below who knifed him several times and beat him senseless...
...life to let an instinct like the sex instinct go was scoffed at by Mr. Fosdick. "Take the instinct of pugnacity," he said, "which is very deep in us. Well go out from this house now, get nearly run over by a car loose your temper, beat up the driver, batter in his head. How will you explain yourself to the judge tomorrow morning? Will you say, 'Your Honor, I am a believer in the new psychology...
Republican National Committeemen arrived in Washington for their first real caucus of the 1928 campaign. Some of them were said to have heard President Coolidge say: "I wonder who could beat 'Al' Smith if I didn...
...piece of wood. Sixteen of them were white; behind these sat a middle-aged Cuban, Jose Raul Capablanca, chess champion of the world. Behind the other 16, which were black, sat Alexander Alekhine, a Russian nobleman, who, for a prize of $10,000 offered by the Argentines, wished to beat the champion. A crowd surrounded the two men. The voices in the crowd became a whisper, then a silence...