Word: horsewhippings
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Miners' wives clutched their children by the hand, jeered "Scab!" at any neighboring moppets who ventured to class. One zealous unionist smashed a schoolroom window with a brick. Another threatened to horsewhip a teacher. Now thoroughly agitated, the Teachers' Association met at Jasper Courthouse, unanimously agreed to keep clear of the A. F. of L., assured Superintendent Scott that no teachers were on strike. Whereupon Superintendent Scott appealed to Alabama's Governor Bibb Graves to get the students back to school...
...rubles for the privilege of not being evicted. When the suit appeared to be dragging on. Moscow's meanest landlady got herself a cartwhip, cracked it ominously in the presence of her lodgers and screamed: "Comrade, unless you pay me the bonus I demand, I'll horsewhip your children, I'll horsewhip your wife, and I'll throw you out with the slops!" In the capital of a Communist State such Capitalist carryings on are "intolerable," as the Government Press remarked last week. Unfortunately they were made possible by the late, great Lenin...
...Leslie E. Myatt saw the item, he marched to the Record's office with a horsewhip. When Editor Levine came out, he cracked him twice. Editor Levine scuttled to a magistrate where he got a warrant for Dr. Myatt's arrest, planned...
Britain, off gold since 1931, loudly feared the loss of her tremendous export trade advantage over the U. S. as the gap between the pound and the dollar quickly narrowed. To many a Londoner the President's action looked like an attempt to horsewhip Britain into line for some sort of currency agreement. Rapping the President's action as "a deliberate stroke of policy." the Duke of Northumberland's Morning Post warned against a "disorderly race of currency depreciation." The angriest shriek came from the Financial News: "Wilful sabotage could not go much further. . . . The whole business...
...vehicle for Cinemactress Bow a story as crude as possible. Author Tiffany Thayer's Call Her Savage. As the heroine of this opus, Miss Bow is called upon to show the sexual glamour for which she is celebrated by beating a rattlesnake to death with a horsewhip, flaying a half-breed Indian, marrying a libertine (Monroe Owsley) and knocking him unconscious, blacking the eye of her husband's mistress (Thelma Todd), practicing prostitution, boxing the ears of her second fiancé (Anthony Jewitt) and punching a horse in the stomach. The only explanation for her behavior lies...