Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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University Should Outdo Greeks...
Whoop it up for dear old Colton, the co-ed college where the scene is laid, for Charles Paddock--Himself, and for the janitor's pet mouse which ran up Bebe Daniel's silk stocking, frightened the haughty young lady, and made her outdo the best girl hurdler old Colton could boast. Whoop it up for the Kappa Betas, who taught the haughty young lady a lesson, and then when she had won the relay for dear old Colton, promptly took her in. Whoop it up for the director who conceived the notion of locking Bebe in the Astronomy Observatory...
Lord & Thomas learned that Mr. Douglas Smith of Chicago, having made one fortune out of patent medicines, was about to outdo himself with a new toothpaste. Lord & Thomas straightway learned all that there was to know in fact and theory, about the gritty white ooze that Mr. Smith's chemists had carefully concocted, and all that there was to know about the toothpaste market-the best distribution areas, geographic and economic. Then Lord & Thomas prepared messages to the public about Mr. Smith's toothpaste and laid before Mr. Smith a program as to where these messages should...
...quadrangular regatta promises to outdo in importance the four-cornered struggle last spring, when Pennsylvania, Cornell, and M.I.T. trailed the Crimson...
...flared up most recently in "We Moderns" at the Metropolitan, a picture based, it is said, on Israel Zangwill's play about the younger generation in England. In this film Colleen Moore, the original flaming youth girl, sets out to make the flapper look old-fashioned and outdo all her previous feats in one glorious burst of flamboyant adolescence...