Word: flogging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never, never flog...
...Bishop of Calcutta, onetime (1885-98) headmaster of Harrow School; at Sevenoaks, Kent, England. Among his Harrow pupils were Earl Baldwin and Winston Churchill. Bishop Welldon recently remarked, "I will probably go down in history as the headmaster of Harrow who was forced reluctantly to punish -nay, even to flog-a rebellious Winston Churchill...
...could the liquidation be accomplished without impairing the Royal Family's immense goodwill dating from Queen Victoria? Could humdrum Mr. Baldwin keep steady and do his awful duty while narrow Downing Street echoed to such cries as "God save the King-from Bald- win! FLOG BALDWIN! FLOG HIM!! WE-WANT-EDWARD!!!" The last man in the world whom such cries could disconcert is Mr. Baldwin, and the last woman is Mrs. Baldwin...
London: Crowds now are crying: "Do we want the King? YES! Do we want Baldwin? NOOooo! Flog Baldwin! GOD SAVE THE KING!" Banners with similar slogans are lifted high outside the iron gates of Buckingham Palace. Tory organs begin to call the demonstrations "suspiciously professional," perhaps the work of Communists, for several British Reds have come out for the King and Mrs. Simpson. So has the No. 1 British Fascist, Sir Oswald Mosley, shouting from a husting, "How would you like a Cabinet of old busybodies to pick your girl?" In Whitehall, Mr. Winston Churchill and his followers...
Depression being what it is in France, this struggling emporium of tourist thrills offers for 150 francs ($10) in the afternoon or 450 francs ($30) in the evening to flog soundly one of its garmentless daughters of joy, first on a certified medieval torture wheel, then on an authentic "Spanish donkey" once used by the Inquisition and finally on a guillotine hitherto of somewhat doubtful authenticity...