Word: outdid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clarence Day Sr. outdid Jeeter Lester -or would this week, when Lindsay & Grouse's Life with Father gave its 3,183rd consecutive Broadway performance, one more than Tobacco Road's previous world record. For the occasion, co-author Howard Lindsay and wife Dorothy Stickney, the original Father & Mother, agreed to resume their roles for a one-night stand. The demand for tickets was so great that they decided to extend their stand to two weeks. Also for the occasion, the play's pressagents compiled some statistics...
...represented the first year in the history of the world in which disarmament was really taken seriously. The Washington Conference, held in the fall of the year was the springboard, and the CRIMSON outdid itself in the pursuit of this objective. A series of 20 special articles examined this and other topics connected with world peace; countless editorials supported the position. Mass meetings were held in the Union and Professor Albert Bushnell Hart 'so said that Americans were learning that isolationism was impossible. But the CRIMSON, wise far beyond its knowing said "we may not necessarily agree . . . that Germany...
...Again, Out Again. He fought with his party, but in 1928 was elected Mayor of Montreal anyway-chiefly because his friends outdid the opposition in voting the names of non-voting oldsters and invalids...
Gloria Vanderbilt, three months after Daughter Gloria cut off her $21,000 a year competence (TIME, March 25), carried out her threat to open a simply devastating Manhattan parfumerie. The gentlemen of the press outdid themselves in describing the new chateau of smell. Sample: "eggplant purple . . . with things like carved mirrors, Degas drawings, velvet divans . . . and tooled red leather desks, but simply teeming." Mother Gloria herself designed the coat of arms. Its blazon: 1) a turquoise horseshoe on a field royal blue; 2) two royal blue hearts pierced with a gilt arrow on a field turquoise; 3) a royal blue...
Highest average per capita contribution for 1945: the Nazarene Church with $55.79. Lowest: Southern Baptists, with $14.18. The Northern Presbyterian Church, with an average contribution of $27.59, edged out the Episcopalians' $27.22; Southern Presbyterians outdid them both, with $31.90. Average contribution...