Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tremendous hit. Most of the enthusiastic raves were for a nine-year-old, towheaded actor named Bobby Henrey. The rest of the praise went to Author Graham Greene (The Heart of the Matter), who supplied a fascinating story, and to Director Carol Reed (Night Train), who for sheer virtuosity outdid himself. Most of the uproar, it turns out, was solidly justified...
When the Communists set up low-cost lunch counters in factories, Catholic Action did the same-and tried to serve better food. When Communist women's organizations sent poor children to the country, Catholic Action went to work until its own kids-to-the-country program by far outdid the Reds'. Last year Catholic Action helped send over a million needy youngsters to summer camps...
...Denmark outdid itself to celebrate King Frederik IX's soth birthday. Among his gifts: a racing motorboat, two carpets, a big electric stove with kitchen utensils, a tractor for plowing fire belts in the royal forest and, from a nine-year-old wellwisher, a letter containing some cigarettes...
Giveaway radio outdid itself last week by showering diamonds, ermine and trips to Monte Carlo on an elderly Negro couple in Philadelphia. For correctly guessing the name of Stop the Music's martial mystery tune (The Navy and the Army, The Army and the Navy) Mrs. Julia Hubert, 58, and her husband, Benjamin, 75, a former Navy Yard employee, were promised $35,250 worth of prizes...
...antiphonal series called "An Appeal to Reason." One of the alternate authors was Co-Editor and Co-Publisher T. O. ("Ted") Thackrey, who was for Henry Wallace; Co-Editor and Co-Publisher Dorothy S. ("Dolly") Thackrey (who is also the owner) was for Tom Dewey. Last week the Thackreys outdid themselves. In a four-page election supplement, readers were not only told which local candidates the Post Home News favored, but which ones the Thackreys disagreed on. Example: Thackrey favored Communist Simon W. Gerson for city council; his wife endorsed Jack Kranis, Democratic and Liberal Party candidate...