Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some months ago Governess Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson of Texas made a promise-that she would resign her executive position if she failed to beat young redpolled Attorney General Dan Moody in the gubernatorial primary. She was beaten by apparently an absolute majority, announced that she would call a special session of the Legislature on Sept. 13, after which she would resign. Texans keep their word, play square...
Wills. Sports writers have long: referred to Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory as "the lion-hearted." They began to use this somewhat hackneyed phrase for a most uncommon quality in 1921 when Mrs. Mallory beat Suzanne Lenglen in their one-set match at Forest Hills. They repeated it when, in 1923, Mrs. Mallory lost her title, after a redoubtable struggle, to Miss Wills (TIME, Aug. 27, 1923.) And they reiterated it last week when Mrs. Mallory had eliminated Helen Wills from the New York State championship at Eye. It was Helen Wills second defeat in eight days. She spent her energy...
Miss Elizabeth Ryan is a good tennis player. A healthy, strapping woman in her middle years, with a face that reddens rapidly when exposed to the sun, she plays the sort of game that is always dangerous but never spectacular. Last year in the finals at Seabright she beat Helen Wills. It was too bad, people said, but you could not expect a champion to be always at her best. When, last week, Miss Ryan cut down Miss Wills decisively in the same tournament, 6-4, 6-1, newspapers reminded the public that Miss Wills had just lost her appendix...
...holiday in Port Darwin, Australia. Bunting fluttered in the streets. August sunshine beat down on the white-powdered road out to Mindil Beach, where the Timor Sea lay breathless blue under an offshore breeze. Soon after breakfast time, the beachward procession began-Port Darwin merchants cool in their white ducks; bronzed " 'roos" ("Kangaroos," i.e. Australians) from the cattle country; darker aborigines shuffling along in silent excitement; cooing Chinese in bright pajamas. They watched the horizon all morning. Some had gone home for midday tiffin, but most remained, chattering, scanning, pondering, when a school urchin jumped forward, his eyes bulging...
...ever penned such a gambling scene as the one here, where young Jim, the camp "gaycat," "fuzz-face" or "gazoony" is admitted to the Thanksgiving Day poker game and after long lucky hours lays four aces on the horse-blanket to beat Bully Black Hawk out of a monster pot. They gave the lad his moniker (nickname) after that and he skinned (drove) mules thereafter instead of walloping dishes...