Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calls a "Viennese head-feeler" to explain his acidity in print. Born in Minneapolis, he worked for the United Press in the U.S. and abroad, wrote a column of sports comment before Roy Howard brought him to the New York World-Telegram in 1933 and made the universe his beat. Pegler is a laborious writer; his brisk, integrated sentences are the result of patient rewriting. Most of his turbulent columns are composed in the seclusion of his Pound Ridge, N. Y. estate, near the haunts of the Nutmeg intelligentsia whom he includes among the "Doubledome Babbitts...
...smoke or drink, though he is permitted to walk upstairs and do other things which persons with weak hearts should not do." Furthermore, he added, the 27-year-old patrolman has excellent chances for long life. Said jubilant William Manning: "I can hardly wait to get back on my beat. I drive my own car . . . and even play a little ball occasionally with the neighborhood kids...
...Tilden beat Hunter. Last week Budge followed suit-but not before dropping a set to his crony, 6-3, 6-8, 6-2, 6-1 -and thereby accomplished what no other tennist had ever done: won the Big Four championships of the world (Australian, French, English, U. S.) in one year...
...Ashurst (brother of Arizona's polysyllabic Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst) digressed to criticize a bill for overtime submitted by Court Clerk Walter Hannon, called it disgraceful, intimated that it was not legal. Hopping mad, Clerk Hannon waylaid the judge on the courthouse steps a few hours later, beat the daylights out of him. Battered and bruised, Judge Ashurst summoned the Grand Jury into immediate session...
Shortly before the opening whistle, the Band will greet the visitors and their supporters by spelling out the word "Welcome" in large letters in the center of the field. Crimson adherents will see the words "Beat 'Em" and "Good Luck Dick" unfold before them on their side of the stands...