Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when the 20th Century was young, the story of the mighty house of Peel came to the ears of Beatrice Gladys Lillie, born in Toronto, Canada, of an English mother and an Irish father. Perhaps that was why her heart beat high in 1919 when she, a musical comedy girl, met a tall, blonde gentleman by the name of Robert Peel-the great-grandson of the great Sir Robert. In 1920 she married him, became mistress of haloed Drayton Hall. Her fame spread through two continents as the frolicsome dancer of Chariot's Revue. But her husband, neither statesman...
Over Greenwood, Miss., a long, streaming V of wild geese beat their way north from the Gulf of Mexico into a thunder storm. Flares and crashes tore up the smooth formation. Geese swooped for coverage. Twenty-six dropped, plumb, dead, onto the farm of Robert Townes...
...pound class F. R. Sullivan '27 of the University beat R. R. Peat-field '28 of M. I. T. and in the 125-pound class Walter Kwok, the M. I. T. captain won from Aaron Gordon '27. Kwok's onslaught was so terrific in the first minutes that it took Gorden two rounde to recover his poise, but, realizing that his opponent did not out-class him as much as he had appeared to, he fought an even third round...
...spite of the light head wind the two crews rowed well and the race was close until the last quarter mile, when De Normandie raised the beat so effectively that his crew forged ahead to a decisive victory...
...work which this admirably trained group had done earlier in the week. As always much honor must go to Dr. Davison and Mr. Woodworth for their excellent work in training the chorus and to Mr. Koussevitaky who, by his wonderful personality and understanding was able to get the beat from them as from the orchestra...