Word: bested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phone call he has waited for for 13 years: from Pasadena, inviting his team to play in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Tennessee's opponent: Howard Jones's undefeated Southern California powerhouse (often referred to this season as "three of the four best teams on the West Coast"), which was held to a 0-to-0 tie by gallant U. C. L. A. last week before 103,300 wild-voiced Los Angeles fans...
...splendiferous version of regulation musicomedy Du Barry Was a Lady is all there. Its costumes are gorgeous, its goings-on boisterous. Its wit is almost nil, but its wisecracks are raw as a cannibal sandwich, suggestive as a red light burning in the hall. Bert Lahr is at his best-which is good enough. Ethel Merman is at her best -which is tops...
Bert Lahr is at his best when he goes royal, wrinkling his sub-Bourbon nose and speaking French as though afraid it might bounce back and hit him. As for Ethel Merman, if she is a little less than kin to Du Barry, she is more than kind-makes her, in fact, the most likable royal trollop that ever pranced behind footlights. More of an 18th-Century tomboy than a glamor girl, Merman booms and torches away in her train-announcer's contralto, jouncing her personality all over the stage, giving the King the oo-la-lahr, then...
Chosen head of a U. S. committee to aid in sending comfort kits to French soldiers, Mrs. Harrison Williams, Manhattan socialite, "best-dressed woman in the world," began taking lessons in knitting from the committee's treasurer...
...gaunt young Russian with a crew haircut took over the job as chief conductor in the orchestra pit of Moscow's Imperial Grand Theatre. Muscovite socialites liked the way he conducted. But Sergei Rachmaninoff had other fish to fry. Not only was he Russia's best pianist, but also the composer of three operas, a symphony, two piano concertos and a sheaf of smaller and more popular operas. One of these, the "Flatbush" Prelude in C Sharp Minor, had already swept the world, made his name a byword among people who never went near a concert hall...