Word: besting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, as everyone knows, Emerson did not mention mousetraps in his essay; but the idea that the man who made the best product would attract the most customers was his. It was the Chicago Tribune, which first used mouse-trap in parodying the Emerson thought...
...defeated her California neighbor and acquaintance, Helen Jacobs, 6-1, 6-2. Fifteen thousand people watched Miss Jacobs rush about the court, applauded with chilling politeness her brilliant recoveries. With no more enthusiasm did they greet the cold, feline accuracy of the Wills game. Helen Wills knows that the best Jacobs shot is a cross-court backhand. Rarely was Helen Jacobs able to use it. There was no drama as once there had been when Miss Wills, winning, was suddenly unnerved, defeated by the swarthy Suzanne Lenglen, who found new strength and boldness by drinking a glass of brandy. Helen...
...This story opens on the bank of the Verdigris River in the good old Indian Territory, four miles east of a town called Oologah, and twelve miles north of a town called Claremore-best Radium water in the World. The plot of the story is a pain in the stomach. The stomach was located amidships of a youth who was prowling up, down, in and across said Verdigris River...
...Untin' Bowler, partly because a hunting bowler hat is supposed to protect its wearer if he falls, and partly (said Chicagoans) because of a McCormick family joke about a child, a bowler hat and a pressing necessity. The Tribune started a prize contest, $100 for the best guess why the plane was named 'Untin' Bowler...
David Herbert Lawrence, bearded son of a miner and of letters, has often shocked his native England with the pagan implications of his novels (Sons and Lovers, Women in Love). His most recent tale, Lady Chatterley's Lover, he thought best to publish privately, stealthily. But officialdom soon learned of its existence, found the book so concupiscent that it was forever banned from England...