Word: flayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only four were left. John F. Sinclair, New York financial writer, had resigned because the first report was too radical. William Ormonde Thompson, old-time labor mediator and onetime law partner of Clarence Darrow, resigned because the second report was not radical enough. He had expected the Board to flay NRA for its failure to make famed Section 7 (a) the infallible collective bargaining weapon for which it was intended. "Step by step," said he, in a long denunciatory message to President Roosevelt, "that section has been transformed into its opposite -a vehicle for employers to force through compulsory arbitration...
...first time since the Revolution, stern Bolshevik elders permitted Communist Youth Pravda to shriek in a seven-column headline last week WE WANT TO DRESS ATTRACTIVELY! Youth Pravda was permitted to flay the State clothing trust for its high-handed rejection of new styles submitted at a Moscow competition last year in favor of "old styles which are easier to make...
...would think from this that we are out for a gripe or that Mencken has come at last to Hanover to flay dying cats. The impression is not the right one, for the articles are built carefully out of facts presented coolly. "Steeplejack" thinks that an undergraduate's best training for future worth is in taking something be knows, namely the score on college as it is, and examining it with candid vitality and solid control. Constant humorous recriminations in "The Dartmouth," campus daily, suggest that this policy gets under the skin. Or maybe it is not so much...
...censor them; but she has left a flowery residue. At first no one girl was enough for the "Don Juan of Our Days." "The most ones of our officers had sweathearts, but I was to yang and to inconstant to bound me with a gerl; prefair to flay from one to a other, as a butterflay who flay from one flower to a other one." Later he had many a protracted affair-with Angelina, with Olga, with his Aunt Emma, with Lili. "the noty gerl" who betrayed him for another...
...before adjournment when the pension fight was at its hottest & heaviest in the Senate, Virginia's peppery little Carter Glass, his nerves rubbed raw with the strain of the session, uprose to flay greedy veterans. From the corner of his mouth he snarled...