Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anonymous Chicago Democratic precinct captain: "It was them bastards that shouldn't oughta vote which voted and beat...
Said white-haired ex-Champ Tommy Armour, who played against Hogan last week: "Like Joe Louis and Walter Hagen, he'll never quit till they carry him out. They may be able to beat this boy in the muscle, but not in the mind...
...Tiger Rag - number un," the Duke said, holding up one finger. "First you play around . . . just a few riffs" (the Duke made guitar-strumming motions). "Then we give you a chord - wham, you go into Tiger by yourself and we start giving you the beat" (The Duke demonstrated on the piano.) "Understand?" Django grinned enthusiastically. They jammed for five minutes, until one by one the band boys left their cards, gossip and naps to gather around, shout encouragement: "Go to it, master. Yah, yah, yah." Says Duke: "Django is all artist. Jazz isn't exactly the word...
...local freethinker and scoffer at the Gospel, Fred Ammermeyer. decided he would beat the missions at their own game by giving a big Christmas feast and blowout for outcasts. No hymns, no prayers, not a word of preachment would embarrass Ammermeyer's free festivities, but "a dinner that went on in rhythmic waves,' all day and all night, until the hungriest and hollowest bum was reduced to breathing with not more than one cylinder of one lung...
Mark up another win, the eighth straight, for the undefeated Freshman soccer team. Scoring twice in the last half, the Yardlings beat the Brown '50's by the score of 2 to 0 last Saturday on the Business School Field...