Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Indians were ready to outdo previous frenzies. Many brought ancient costumes, decked with beads, feathers, shells for their traditional dances. Others set up stands and sold native products to visitors. Through the crowds circulated vendors of the real, authentic Basilica cigarets, proceeds from the sale of which were, to be given by El Aquila Cigaret Co. to the alteration fund of the Basilica. El Aquila had first christened the cigarets Cuarto Centenario, but an impious competitor had quickly produced a brand known as Centenario, necessitating change of name and an advertisement denouncing the upstarts as crass mercenaries...
...bought out potent Cosmopolitan Book Corp., publishers since 1914 and wholly owned by William Randolph Hearst. Long used by Mr. Hearst to make by-profits out of serials published in his magazines, Cosmopolitan was grandly energized last year and the book trade heard that Mr. Hearst was out to outdo the greatest book houses. The Cosmopolitan stable of authors was expensively expanded until it included such prize exhibits as Louis Bromfield (reputedly under contract for five books at $60,000 a book), Erich Maria Remarque, Anita Loos, Fannie Hurst, Ruth Suckow, Vicki Baum, Colette, Rex Beach, besides such old Hearst...
...coat, criticize second rate statuary, attend night clubs, horse-races and a dancing class, gargling quiet wisecracks as he does so. The story, adapted from a play by George Ade called Father and the Boys, shows how a dyspeptic and chronically disgruntled businessman becomes revitalized in an effort to outdo his lively offspring. His sons suspect him of reckless conduct with a vivacious lady (Fifi Dorsay), suspect that his nose, withdrawn from the grindstone, will become tarnished by inebriation. Instead, his lively antics cause him to regain health and good spirits so thoroughly that he suggests a line...
...Comet is practically barren of reputable advertising despite the hiring of mercenary or publicity-hungry clergymen to write daily editorials. But on the theory that a million circulation-no matter what its class- will force advertisers to buy space, the Comet and its competitors push on, trying to outdo each other in nauseous antics. And that weird battle robs Editor Peters of his bitterest competitor and closest friend-Editor Anthony Wayne of the Lantern. Here Author Gauvreau makes no attempt to obscure the figure of the late Editor Philip Payne of the Mirror, to whom the book is dedicated. Beaten...
...Lionel de Jersey Harvard. Victor Emmanuel Chapman, and Bayard Cutting Fellowships in particular. They lack concreteness, perhaps, but there may be some among the alumni to whom a memorial is something more than the mere piling of one brick on top of another in a successful attempt to outdo in uselessness all previous war memorials. A World War Memorial Scholarship and Fellowship Fund could never be the laughing stock of Cambridge, it would fill a pressing need, and would materially aid the teaching of the arts of peace. J. J. Horton...