Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point the jury remembered to ask Mrs. Hebner whose, if not her husband's, was the corpse in her cellar. To this Mrs. Hebner had no answer, but she gave the jury interesting ground for speculation by relating how one day, when she had found Will Hebner beating a cow to death with an iron bar, he had explained that it was the same bar he had used to beat the life out of a St. Louis storekeeper named William Hite on Nov. 10, 1935. It seemed that for Will Hebner a murder was of no more moment...
...minutes after Policeman S. C. Hopkins of Washington, Ga. jailed a Negro woman for fighting, he was confronted on his beat by the same woman. Said she: "Don't get mad with me. I didn't break out of jail. I just come down here to tell you the back door is open...
Sparks Sorlein '38 also held off all handicap-hippers in the 220. His time 22.2s, was better than could do the two other scratch men, Torbert MacDonald '40 and Tudor Richards '38 who placed second and third. Freshman Don Donahue beat Mason Fernald '40 in the 220 low hurdles who started at scratch with him. His time was 24.9s. Fernald, however, had had his victory in the high hurdles which he covered in the good time...
Kendall (white), Harvard, copped the 220 freestyle. Rawstrom (white), of Springfield College barely beat out Coleman (white) of Harvard in the 440 freestyle...
Persecution made Watson stronger, but success beat him. In Congress he was despondent and ineffectual. He became wealthy, built a big house where he lived like an oldtime planter, but grew morose and vindictive, gradually stopped crusading for farmers and took up more sensational causes. Increasingly unhappy, he would interrupt his incoherent tirades against the Jews and Catholics with strange stories about assassins who were after him, about mysterious footprints found outside his mansion windows. At times he thought he was going insane. Beaten in one campaign after another, he was finally jeered off the stage in Atlanta, where...