Word: flayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this letter news? It is to me merely a selfish attempt to flay an established concern, and an attempt on the part of one who does not even mention his school so that one may form an unbiased opinion on the basis of actual comparison...
...Double Flay Ends Game...
...From the Speaker's platform of the House of Representatives, President Coolidge delivered a birthday eulogy of George Washington. He did not flay the modern biographers. Efficiency, said he, was the watchword of Washington's greatness. An inconspicuous radio microphone started President Coolidge's methodical voice on its way throughout the U. S. and to Europe...
...went the splashers. They sucked food through' rubber tubes. They listened to the cheerings of their followers. The red flares of surrender were going up often now. Few were left to flay their ways through the black water. Only two of the men-George Young, 17-year-old Canadian, and huge Norman Ross of Chicago-still faced the mainland. Between 3 and 4 miles from shore Swimmer Ross sighed finis and groped for the gunwale of his boat. That left George Young alone, and he succeeded. After 15 hrs., 44 min., 33 sec., he reached Point Vinvente, Calif., losing...
...with intimate glimpses of Harlem and faked pictures of lynchings. Obviously, such material was intended to boost the Negro circulation of the Graphic. But the sheetlet, in its exuberance for the sensational, went too far and stepped on the toes of many a Negro when it set about to flay Booker Taliaferro Washington. Said the Graphic: "There are not lacking thousands of intelligent Negroes who believe that Booker T. Washington, consciously or unwittingly, betrayed his color and his kind...