Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd was as large as last year and vastly more enthusiastic, and for once Harvard outdid Yale in cheering...
Radicals for Hoover Fortunate -the radical newspapers sympathized with President Hoover's idealism. Moreover the entire French Cabinet outdid themselves in efforts to present the Hoover note in a favorable light to an angry and mistrustful Chamber of Deputies. Pa- tiently, tirelessly, Premier Pierre Laval explained and re-explained to the Chamber that President Hoover delivered no "ultimatum" to France. Repeatedly the alleged "abrupt" and "threatening" character of the President's proposals was flayed by Deputies. When Premier Laval, looking more than ever like a red-faced, perspiring butcher, soothingly observed, "Mr. Hoover has even sent Mr. Mellon to Paris...
Publisher William Randolph Hearst's Journal nearly outdid the tabloids in baring the VICE GIRL'S SECRETS. Two days later it was its lot to headline: JURY GETS VICE MURDER DIARY; VIVIAN'S CHILD KILLED BY SHAME...
...resembled Theodore Roosevelt in his ability to meet everyone in his own field whether it were theology science, history, or engineering, but he outdid the American in the fluency with which he spoke other languages. It was a love of learning that led Kaiser Wilhelm to send the wonderful collection of casts to the Germanic Museum as a token of his interest in Harvard...
...pneumonia. Nearest of kin to great Wilhelm Richard Wagner, in charge of this first evening of the 1930 Bayreuth festival was Siegfried's anxious wife. Yet despite all difficulties Tannhauser soared sonorously, sublimely to its final great choral of pity and pardon. When it was ended critics outdid one another in hailing the performance as the most brilliant Bayreuth opening in years. For Toscanini it was a great night, his Bayreuth debut. To his presence-perhaps his last engagement as an opera conductor -was ascribed an early sell-out of admissions for the whole season. He is conducting...