Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week it developed that when Franklin Roosevelt helped Elmer Thomas to beat Gomer Smith in Oklahoma (see col. 1), he put some cash into Son Elliott Roosevelt's pocket. Correspondent Bascom Timmons on the President's train was offering 3-to-1 on Smith until Elliott's father spoke for Thomas at Oklahoma City. Then Elliott sent for Timmons, who protested the odds had changed, were now 8-to-10. Elliott agreed to the odds but refused to bet "chicken feed." badgered unhappy Timmons into betting...
...records: capital funds were up $4,963,000 to $112,231,000; deposits totaled $1,357,778,000, $77,058,000 increase over June 30, 1937; total resources were $1,498,527,000, compared with 1938's $1,415,559,000. Half-year earnings of $12,321,000 beat last year's first six months...
...wire service providing race-track information to poolroom bookmakers, with much whipped-up and unconvincing material on the size of the racket, and much melodrama on the attempts of racketeers to get control of it. The best section, telling how dumb Joe Dugan of Kansas City unwittingly beat up a powerful gangster, who thereafter thought the worst mob yet had come to town, is so funny that the rest of the book seems flatter by contrast...
Observant Reader Semple is quite right, but even if it worked it would remain a useless egg beater. Only Paul Bunyan could use an egg beater five feet high, only Paul Bunyan's chickens could lay eggs big enough for it to beat...
...time. Spike Chace, son of a Park Avenue physician, rowing his last race for Harvard, was the hero of the day. His name was bracketed with that of William ("Foxey") Bancroft (1878) and Gerry ("Killer") Cassedy (1933), the only two other oarsmen in Harvard annals who ever set the beat for three victories in a row over Yale. Having won the freshman and junior varsity races in the morning and the combination race the evening before, Harvard registered a clean sweep over Yale for the first time since...