Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Phooey! I can beat his golf score...
...voice: "She's sweating blood!" "It's a miracle," screamed an old woman, "we'll have our saint." Rumors continued to flash through the dark like scratched matches: Maria was dying, she felt neither burns nor pinpricks, she was dead but her heart continued miraculously to beat. Passionately one girl in the crowd implored: "Let's hope her heartbeats stop soon...
...square a rusty gramophone was grinding out popular waltz tunes. Soon the pilgrims began betting on whether Maria would die. They bet money, their wine crops, their horses, mules and even pieces of land. As Maria's hour of agony drew near the wine flowed faster, the music beat louder, the bets went higher...
Reginald Marsh had looked at the people, not the architecture. The bald, bull-necked Yale graduate who says "Well-bred people are no fun to paint," made his beat the Bowery, the burlesque shows, and raucous Coney Island, painted it with a Hogarthian incisiveness and strength...
WPIX, having scored a clear news beat over all other television stations, was justly and vocally proud. WPIX had also scored a clear news beat over its owner-the tabloid New York Daily News, which did not hit the streets with pictures until 50 minutes later. About this in-the-family phase of its beat, WPIX was discreetly silent...