Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sportswriter gloating over the winning spurt of the New York Giants. A letter arrived from the editor of Beauty Shop News requesting that a conference be held on "The Relation of Beauty to Human Behavior." The New York Times'?, gnomish, imaginative Science Writer William L. ("Bill") Laurence outdid himself by coining a word, "macroscope" (opposite of microscope) by which he imagined the 72 combined brains focused as one instrument upon Man and the Universe. Platoons of newshawks backed stammering notables into corners, pressed them for one-syllable explanations of profundities expounded from the platform...
...term "deliberative assembly" in its last week, jam through more bills than it has passed in any previous week. But in the political year 1936 the 74th Congress, tardy because of its recess for the Republican convention and straining to be through in time for the Democratic convention, outdid most of its predecessors. Important bills enacted last week...
...time for the small neutrals to stop being the witless tools of France and Britain. An agreement was promptly reached. At Monday's luncheon they wanted to know without equivocation what France and Britain were prepared to do before they committed themselves. Captain Eden and M. Paul-Boncour outdid each other hemming & hawing...
...thin, dark-eyed daughter of Lady Bessborough, fell in love with him. Although a great many noble ladies felt the same passion, "Lady Caro," who was also affectionately called "Ariel," "Savage," & "Squirrel," outdid them all. She disguised herself as a page in order to get into Byron's rooms, waited in the street while he attended parties to which she had not been invited, tried to stab herself when he spoke crossly to her, forged his handwriting to get his picture from his publisher. Driven to distraction by her, Byron found companionship with her mother-in-law, Lady Melbourne...
...full days of pranks, parades, politics. Time & Place. An activity which jumped the official gun was the scramble by four big U. S. cities for next year's convention site. At stake were civic prestige, acres of publicity and $10,000,000 in Legion spending money. Booster delegations outdid themselves in their efforts to ingratiate themselves with the conventioneers in general, the potent Committee on Time & Place in particular...