Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Lords, prominent Jewish and Labor peers surprisingly outdid themselves in speeches calculated to dispose Adolf Hitler favorably to touch wood, that is Lord Halifax. One of Britain's top Jews, Viscount Samuel urged in the House of Lords that Germany be explicitly absolved of her 1914 "War guilt," that her former colonies be returned, and that the Covenant of the League of Nations be detached from the Treaty of Versailles in hopes of getting the Reich to rejoin the League...
...with inside revelations gained from "Seven Days in the Madhouse!" He headlined Edward VIII's abdication "LONG LOVE THE KING!" and disguised Times photographers as clergymen so they could sneak into a hospital, scoop a picture of an injured motorman after an "L" crash. Last week Editor Ruppel outdid himself in a stunt which brought his program of gingery oldtime journalism pretty close to the hysterical...
Paradoxically, the Man of the Year should be a woman. She outdid President Roosevelt by not only taking one country by storm, but all of them...
...always shunned publicity. Once they were able to report second-hand accounts of an elaborate bridge party she gave for a large group of ladies. The guests appeared wearing gaudy pajamas and blonde wigs if their hair had not been bleached as had their hostess's. Queen Helen outdid all of them by wearing black lace pajamas over white tights. On another occasion she courted future votes by inviting members of a victorious University of Southern California football team to Magnolia Farm and treating them to a seven-course dinner that began with nine rounds of cocktails and included...
...were cheered by a round of festivities including two boat rides around San Francisco Bay, a grand banquet and ball at the Palace Hotel, a golf tournament at the Olympic Club's Lakeside course. Amadeo Giannini's Bank of America, biggest U. S. bank west of Manhattan, outdid itself in the matter of hospitality. To each of the bankers' ladies on the night of the formal ball, Bank of America sent a corsage of two orchids. To each of the bankers it dispatched a neat package of seven bottles of assorted California wines...