Word: flayed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Explosion. Not until last week did Republican and Communist newsorgans discover and commence to flay the indiscretion of General von Seeckt. Most lamentably Defense Minister Gessler, ignorant of the General's peccadillo, denied publicly what proved to be the truth: that Prince Wilhelm served with the "Hohenzollern Ninth" during the recent maneuvers...
...Commons- ¶ I Upheld the Baldwin Conservative Government 338 to 152 in its watchful waiting policy of dealing with the coal strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) which has reputedly cost the Empire to date a sum equivalent to $1,000,000,000. ¶ Heard Liberal leader Lloyd George flay Premier Baldwin for not yielding to the proposal of a group of Church of England dignitaries (TIME, July 26) that the Government subsidize the coal industry for four months, during which time work would be resumed and peace negotiations continued. ¶ Dozed as Premier Baldwin, seemingly fatigued, "run down," replied...
...your Original Subscribers and I believe my attitude toward TIME is typical of the old guard. We do not want TIME changed! Since occasional younger fry - subscribers with only half a dozen copies on the shelf - delight to flay you, may I draw my quill in your defense ? Some of these nouveaux readers have criticized your repetition of "famed" (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 2). May I state that the old guard likes TIME'S distinctive and original use of "one" and "famed" which you employ before the name of an individual exactly as Baedecker used one or two asterisks...
...Admiral by the Kaiser (1916) and obliged to take refuge in Switzerland after the War because of German popular resentment* against him as the instigator of Germany's eventually disastrous U-boat policy. Such memories, perhaps, have taught him to keep silent. But last week he rose to flay the Government for its conciliatory policy toward Locarno and the League. Trembling with intensity and striking the desk before him with a frail clenched hand, he demanded the withdrawal of Germany's application for League membership and the abandonment of the Locarno Pacts: "Beware! Oh, beware! The Government...
Earlier in the week, Premier Baldwin of Britain barely tided over an open Cabinet split on this issue, and the British press continued to flay "Monsieur" Chamberlain for having allegedly gained M. Briand's support at Locarno by promising to champion France's ally, Poland, before the League...