Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the end, Pennsylvania's Senator Joseph Guffey called at the White House. That evening he made a radio speech denouncing the three Senators who did most to defeat the President's plan to enlarge the Supreme Court. "Political ingratitude carries with it its own punishment both swift and effective," said Senator Guffey. As political ingrates sure to be defeated when they come up for reelection he named three Democrats, Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Nebraska's Edward R. Burke and Montana's Burton K. Wheeler. From Senator Guffey, a spokesman...
...done enough for one day. Miss Bundy, daughter of onetime (1904) U. S. Champion May Sutton, squealed, giggled, sprawled, enjoyed herself so thoroughly in her first Wightman Cup match that she and Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn lost to Miss Stammers & Freda James, 6-3, 10-8, only U. S. defeat of the series...
...Reports, never effectively denied, reached Hendaye of a revival of street fighting in Barcelona and other Leftist towns. Again & again stories came up to Madrid of abortive rebellions in Granada, Motril and Toledo. It was said that Italian troops, held in hearty disdain by Spanish Rightists since their disastrous defeat at Guadarrama in March (TIME, April 5), their poor showing at Bilbao, had been ordered to Toledo to remain in reserve for the eternally discussed final attack on Madrid. To make way for them, Spanish regulars were ordered to vacate the most comfortable barracks in the city. Firing broke...
Leading parts in Song on Your Bugles are assigned to a poor boy who has the makings of a great artist and the Yorkshire factories which work for his defeat. Few novelists are ever able to write convincingly about either genius or working-class life. Eric Knight's credible portrayal of both, plus his skillful handling of an idiomatic locale, combine to make his novel outstanding on any grounds; as an example of that rare work, a really dramatic "proletarian" novel, it is more remarkable still...
...looked as though Hare, previously considered likely to lose both his singles matches, was highly likely to beat Parker. If Great Britain could win the doubles match as well, or if Austin, always inspired in Davis Cup play, could reverse his straight-set defeat by Budge in the London Championship in June...