Word: flayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rallied last week to defend Motor Man Ford from the criticisms of Banker Grenfell M.P. Since Fords are everywhere rivaled by General Motor's products; and since J.P. Morgan & Co. of Manhattan have helped to finance General Motors, the Laborites thought that they saw a shrewd opening to flay London's Grenfell M.P. for having flayed Motor Man Ford in the House of Commons...
...consumption of potatoes has decreased 25% in the last two years. There was a crop surplus of 80,000,000 bushels in 1927. There will probably be a bigger surplus this year. These figures caused Gov. H. Clarence Baldridge of Idaho to flay "that foolish women's fad for slim figures'' before a convention of potato-growers in Chicago last week. Gov. Baldridge, as everyone knows, has both potato-growers and women among his constituents...
...little Scot, he sits under the gilded dome of the Pulitzer Building and does his job with dour thoroughness. He learned his line and perhaps some of his satirical sharpness under the late great Artist Whistler. His method is the oldtime one of standardizing the figures he seeks to flay. His corpulent, fat-jowled metaphor for the G. O. P. has became almost as well-known as was the late Thomas Nast's moneybag effigy of Boss Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby stigmata, the figure of Theodore Roosevelt the Younger as a small, grimacing...
...rebuking this trend, Mr. Hertzog let slip an indication of his wish respecting the Duke of Gloucester, and then went on to flay Pretorian republicans, especially parsons who preach republicanism from their pulpits...
Since Peace Prizer Briand's dander was now up, he digressed completely, to flay the many critics of the new, secret Anglo-French military-naval agreement (TIME, Aug. 13). Everyone now knows that the existence of the agreement was revealed through an incredibly stupid British blunder; and a further piece of British folly has been to keep the text dark after the fact of its existence leaked. Passion tinged the rich tones of Briand's voice as he cried: "France and Great Britain have been working together for the peace of the world, and have been singularly unfortunate...