Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Martha Washington. "In any case, the meeting with Martha was a blessing to him [Washington]. He was none of your intellectuals himself, no bookworm. He had gone through years of loneliness in rain and snow, in horror, bloodshed and defeat. He needed above all things a plump little widow to take him to her soft breast and give him repose and the luxury of a home. If he could not give her the passionate ardor of his first love, neither could she give him hers...
...baseball manager: "In the columns of able Journalist Clinton W. Gilbert, I noticed, recently, my name, coupled with that of Fielding Harris Yost, famed Michigan football coach. Commenting upon our oratorical support of Republican Congressman Robert H. Clancy, former Democratic Congressman, Mr. Gilbert graciously admitted that our advocacy helped defeat the sartorially notable Congressman John B. Sosnowski in Detroit's greatest Polish district. He wrote: 'Mr. Cobb commanded many votes among the masses. . . . Mr. Yost reached the intellectuals. His appeal was to the highbrows who follow the highbrow sport of football...
...successively vanquished by some young brawny Boston Lithuanian. But, then- Johnson was a has-been, knocked out by fat Jess Willard; Smith was a trial horse, only fair; Roberts, who had ever heard of him? Astute, pudgy gentlemen relaxed; the heavyweight situation seemed unchanged. . . . Later came news of the defeat of clever Jack Renault, tough Johnny Risko at the same hands. The hands belonged to square-jawed Jack Sharkey, carried the potential power of dynamite. Binghamton-born, Boston-bred, this Lithuanian with a famed Irish name* served in the navy, has boxed professionally for but two years. In Boston...
Dartmouth invades the Stadium at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon a heavy favorite over a fighting Harvard team that will try to bring a Crimson victory over the Green for the first time in four years. Harvard has won one game this year, Dartmouth has lost one. In defeat, Dartmouth looked potently strong; in victory, Harvard appeared a doubtful quantity. It is essentially a dark-house eleven that will wear the Crimson at the opening whistle...
...University harriers, running in mid-season form against Dartmouth, paraded through to an 18 to 46 victory, winning eight out of the first ten places. Despite Harvard's previous victory over Holy Cross, the crushing defeat of Dartmouth was hardly expected in the second meet of the season...