Word: flaying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Next issue he will flay the Methodists...
...internationally famed editor of Die Zukunft (The Future) "meets" most of his contemporaries with intent to flay them. It is the opinion of the pre-War U. S. Ambassador to Germany, James W. Gerard, who prefaces the book, that Harden's "power of delineating a personality is more than photographic," that "the hidden thoughts and secret emotions" of men "are as plain to him as if he pierced their being with a mental...
...Editor Harden "meet," "pierce" and "flay...