Word: horsewhippings
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...woman I interviewed grew up on a farm, and her mother used to beat her with a horsewhip. With a whip! That's the most horrific thing you can imagine. She's the prime example of, You can't forgive, but you can choose to forget. As this woman says, She's my mother, and I love her, and this is the most important thing, and I understand her history. I understand that she is doing to me what was done to her. A lot of these abusive mothers were abused. I believe that if this woman who was beaten...
Millions of readers do, and they utter it with a masochistic tremolo last in fashion when lovestruck ladies knelt before candlelit glossies of Rudolph Valentino carrying a horsewhip. The cute brute of the moment is Dominic Challenger, hero of a new novel called Wicked Loving Lies that sold close to 3 million copies in the first month of publication and forms the leading edge of a new wave of mass literary entertainment. Abandoned by Hollywood as too corny and too expensive to produce, shunned by television as unsuitable for the small screen, the costume epic is taking over the bookstalls...
...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...
...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...
...those young toughs do not receive a stiff sentence, then there is no justice. If I had them, I'd horsewhip them...