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Word: horsewhip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marx Brothers. Later they lost a pair of legs, when Zeppo dropped out of the act. Groucho, Chico and Harpo went on to make eight more films together, becoming precursors of the new American humor. Groucho's flip irrelevancies foreshadowed the theater of the absurd: "I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse." Harpo was a troll bridge between the silents and the talkies. "How can you write for Harpo?" shrugged George S. Kaufman. "All you can say is, 'Harpo enters.' From that point on, he's on his own." Though Chico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Restoration Comedy | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...case of many "middleaged or elderly" customers at the Mews, Vickie testified, she stripped down to her underwear and high-heeled shoes and lashed them with a cane or a horsewhip. The market price for that, she said matter-of-factly, "was ?1 [$2.80] a stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Dial S for Squalor | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...those young toughs do not receive a stiff sentence, then there is no justice. If I had them, I'd horsewhip them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 3, 1961 | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

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