Word: flaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dean Swift went a step further than Nat Gubbins: "Those who are more thrifty . . . may flay the carcass [of a small child]; the skin of which, artificially dressed, will make admirable gloves for ladies, and summer boots for fine gentlemen...
...Exchequer about to produce a budget is treated like a pregnant woman. He relaxes in the peaceful countryside, awaiting the great moment. The press lavishes solicitude, photographs him smiling bravely through his ordeal. Editorialists who have lambasted him unmercifully for months before the Great Event (and will flay him even more heartily after it) permit him this week of peaceful gestation; only a bounder or a cad would kick a Chancellor of the Exchequer in this condition...
...Tennessee will illustrate to New England, by its hell-for-leather manner of flay, the dry rot and decay which have overthrown the Harvard and Dartmouths and Browns here in a corner of the country where college football players are strict amateurs and play like strict amateurs." November...
...wordly-wise politicians, newspapermen, experts, used such emotional terms to describe what was wrong with the people. There had been nothing quite like it in U.S. political history. Many a time in the past newspapers had run a thundering headline over some smaller attack on some smaller group: TAMMANY FLAYED BY REFORMER, or SENATORS FLAY BIG BUSINESS. But if last week's attacks, complaints, warnings, exhortations, condemnations of the people were boiled down to one headline, it would read: THE PEOPLE FLAYED...
...Senate, Republicans got an unexpected ally in loudmouthed, gummy-grinned lame duck Rush Holt (Dem., W. Va.), who rose to flay New York's Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman, who (along with Henry Wallace) had suggested that the Axis powers wanted Roosevelt beaten. Lehman himself was fanning a war hysteria, said Holt, in order to swell the dividends of Lehman Corp., of which his cousin is president, and which, said Holt, holds shares in Bendix Aviation, Vultee, Stinson and Lockheed Aircraft, Hercules Powder, Dow Chemical, New York Shipbuilding, Freeport Sulphur, and Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown and U. S. Steel...