Word: flaying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neck when the recall comes.' I stopped instantly to administer a thoroughgoing reprimand. Other youths gathered around me. Said I: 'If that's what you fellows are taught in school, you might as well get out and get to work.' Continuing to flay the insolence and ignorance of youth, I told them that 'the leading citizen of the state was entitled to be revered and honored for the office he held...
Missouri. Harry B. Hawes, Democrat, v. Senator George H. Williams, Republican. It is a battle of personalities, with scarcely a wink separating the candidates. Both are Wet; both flay the World Court. Mr. Hawes has the blessing of Senator "Jim" Reed, who, Republicans say, is no blessing to any one. Missouri and Massachusetts are the two most doubtful states in this autumn's elections...
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...