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...honorable Speaker and everyone else that I am not a milk-chocolate Democrat. I am an old-line Democrat, who is not even about to drink the dregs left by Soapy Williams or any other liberal. I am tired of furnishing a back for them to practice their bullwhip lessons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War Between the States | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...Weapon. In Palm Springs, Calif., after Georgia Mae Love hit her husband on the nose with a claw hammer, stabbed him in the arm with a steak knife, and tried to ram his truck with her Hillman Minx, police booked her for disturbing the peace, discovered a three-foot bullwhip in her brassiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 11, 1958 | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...mile location trek, is the first Hollywood movie to be made in Australia. The trip paid off with striking Technicolor scenes that Director Lewis Milestone shot around Sydney and rugged Flinders Range: a cattle stampede in a bushfire, a corroboree rain dance, a blistering dust storm and a slashing bullwhip battle between a couple of bushrangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All Outdoors | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...second Louisiana Hayride hit the road last week. Earl Long picked up Brother Huey's bullwhip and laid it manfully across the backs of his submissive legislators. In the driver's seat with him was the Kingfish's 29-year-old son, Russell. Governor Earl and nephew Russell were fixing to make hay just like Huey used to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Just Like Huey | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Another character is Indian Chieftain Tishomingo, a wizard with a bullwhip, who had spent his life trying to invent a Choctaw alphabet, and succeeded. Tishomingo has some of the fabulous charm which Fenimore Cooper gave his aborigines. And the last days and death of tough old Sam Dabney skirt the edge of really good romancing, only now & then breaking bounds to snatch a slice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books, Aug. 3, 1942 | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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