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Word: horsewhips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columnist Pegler got another kind of compliment from Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt. In her question & answer column in the Ladies' Home Journal, she was asked why her "big, strong American sons" didn't horsewhip Westbrook Pegler. Mrs. Roosevelt's reply: "Why should they bother to horsewhip a poor little creature like Westbrook Pegler? They would probably go to jail for attacking someone who was physically older and perhaps unable to defend himself. After all, he is such a little gnat on the horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Colummsts's Column | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...Scorpio, purple-shaded portrait of Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr (Ecstasy, Algiers), complete with a horsewhip, a rose and tinted toenails, by Comedian Reginald Gardiner, painted in the days when Artist Gardiner was her most devoted escort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hollywood Art | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

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