Word: lash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the double lash of the British Army and Victorian conventions Burton had subsided only somewhat. Under Isabel's expert management ("I have domesticated and tamed Richard a little," she wrote) he broke out less often but no less lustily. In his last years at Trieste, an old man by now. Burton one day routed Isabel's swanky afternoon circle of women by stalking into their midst, glowering, to display a manuscript titled A History of Farting...
...Donald Ray Lash, Indiana University runner: the fastest two-mile race in history: in 8 min. 58 sec., shading Paavo Nurmi's indoor record (8:58.2) and his own outdoor world record (8:58.3); in Boston's Garden...
...Herbert, a Negro employe of the New York Curb Exchange, whirled around in the Millrose 600 so rapidly that he left behind two national champions and the 800-metre Olympic champion, Negro John Woodruff of University of Pittsburgh. Catapulted into national publicity when one of them beat Don Lash, world record holder, in the second fastest outdoor two-mile race ever run in the U. S., at the Sugar Bowl Games at New Orleans last month, the arrival of the Rideout Twins for the northern winter track season sent researchers scurrying for data on identical twins in sport...
...That's crazy as hell!" was the Rideouts' reply last week to stories that they somehow tricked Don Lash at New Orleans. Racing on boards for the first time at the Millrose Games last week, Blaine Rideout ran off the inside of the track on the fifth lap of the 1,000-yd. run, pitched headlong, did not finish. Both Rideouts ran in the two-mile an hour later. Blaine fought with Lash for second place for 16 laps while Indiana's Tommy Deckard built up an unbeatable lead. Getting a pain in his side, Blaine fell...
...Organization of America, sought out Director Reinhardt in Paris and proposed to produce in Manhattan a Biblical superspectacle "that would also constitute a stirring commentary on current events." It would provide a symbol of solidarity around which to rally world Jewry to the defense of fellow Jews suffering the lash of Nazi persecution. Director Reinhardt, who had his huge indoor Miracle ten years behind him, his huge outdoor A Midsummer Night's Dream one year in the future, agreed to take on the job. He called in Novelist Werfel, who was completing his best-selling Forty Days of Musa...