Word: beating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in a richly furnished room overlooking the lights of Washington, the Vice President of the United States danced a little solo to the strains of an accordion and a guitar. Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder and Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson beat time, grinning appreciatively. With the Italian ambassador and the others, Senator Tom Connally and Colonel Louis Johnson, the new Defense Secretary-to-be, caroled My Old Kentucky Home and The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You. Mrs. Perle Mesta, all gotten up in a brown net Dior dress, was entertaining at "Uplands...
When the newspapers picked up his innocent merriment last week and made it sound too straight-faced to suit him, President Armitage beat a hasty retreat. "I'm not peddling the institution," he insisted. "We're just a nice little school getting along nicely." Nobody had come through with a million, he added, but one friend of South Jersey (who remained anonymous) had pledged...
Varsity and Yale swordsmen have made similar scores against almost every opponent. They both beat Columbia, 14 to 13; and against Army and Princeton, their scores differed by only one point...
...only Canadian team which the Crimson has played this year is McGill. McGill beat Harvard, was beaten by Dartmouth, and came out only third in the Canadian League...
When Stan Priddy's freshman hockey team meets Yale at New Haven this afternoon, it will get another of its few chances to see how ice actually feels underfoot. With scarcely any practise time behind them, the Yardling skaters will have to fight hard to beat a squad--supposedly equal on paper that can boast a long string of practise sessions in recent weeks...