Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special Mother's Day proclamation. Before he died a few years ago he called Miss Jarvis to his bedside and asked her if he had been the first Governor to get aboard the bandwagon. Tenderheartedly she said yes, but actually the Governor of North Dakota, she says, beat him to it by several days. Then in 1914 President Wilson issued a National proclamation and the flower stores began to sense the possibilities. Miss Jarvis started her hopeless, 25-year fight against commercialism...
...sing without a hitch, he had an idea. Stammerer Smith cured himself, formed the Kingsley Club, enrolled Philadelphians and New Yorkers (mostly businessmen) and set out to cure them of stammering. He gave them deep breathing exercises and "inspiration." had them pronounce words slowly and rhythmically to the beat of a metronome. Then he stood them before an audience to talk. His method worked so well that today his club has 350 members, many of them now ex-stammerers...
...found ushering generally inefficient, characterized by stupid or unpleasant workers who made their living on tips for showing balcony patrons to orchestra seats. From Paddy Harmon, manager of the Chicago Stadium, Andy got his first big job; was soon so successful that Chicago hoodlums demanded a cut. He beat up their emissary. Four mobsters then tried to shoot him, but he and two of his brothers gave all four a beating. Usher Frain was never troubled again...
Less experienced than the cool Eli eight, the Hainesmen were unable to settle and forced to a lower beat. With a half-mile to go, rowing smoothly at a high beat combined with efficient inboard work, stroke Bailey's boat nipped the leads of Princeton and Tech and closed the gap on the Elis. Yale was already over by two-thirds of a length, however, clocking...
...Freshman race it is the Tech boat which offers the greatest challenge to Harvey Love's confident Yardlings. They beat the Engineers by 1 1-2 lengths on April 30 and should do it again easily...