Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with major and minor college outbreaks have given the local force an uncanny knowledge of how best to get undergraduate goats and how worst to handle undergraduate groups. Student-baiting has become an art, a highly specialized though somewhat contradictory phase of law enforcement. And Thursday night the force outdid itself...
This week the Freshmen outdid their Varsity elders by downing the New Haven cubs in a closer meet 15 to 12. The Crimson looked best in the foil which they took with an easy 6 to 3 score, led by Johnson's three wins...
Calling in reporters, the crotchety, 74-year-old tycoon outdid himself in genial interviews. First he delivered himself about the State of the Nation. Referring to "the prevailing belief that wages should he reduced and prices raised," he declared: "The people are getting a good education in the fallacy of the economic rule now in force. Whenever prices go down and wages up, benefits accrue. Eliminate the greed for money and substitute a little zeal for production and normal conditions soon will return." The liberal New York World-Telegram commented that these sentiments "just can't be matched...
...Vicki Baum insists that she has jumped on no Bali band wagon. As long ago as 1916, her foreword says, photographs of the island so fascinated her that they became her favorite smelling salts against "war, revolution, inflation. , . . ." Nineteen years later a sight of the real thing outdid her dreams. And then an old Dutch colonizer died and left her a trunkful of manuscripts, among them an "interminable" novel built around the final conquest of Bali by the Dutch in 1904-06. Her long novel is "a free paraphrase" of this lengthy legacy...
...trouble in showing Cleopatra as ''the shrewdest and most intelligent woman of her time." She roughed it with Caesar during their hard pressed military campaign, was a model of reserve as his mistress in Rome. With Antony she played the lavish wanton, outdid him in everything from drinking to horseplay. Deserted on the eve of bearing his twins, she greeted him three years later as though he had only been out for a walk. But her price was the old Pharaoh empire, his divorce from Octavia. This last move, says Ludwig, marked the point where her emotions began...