Word: lash
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...have never been whipped under a lash in my life and by the eternal gods I never expect to be. Under this cloture lash I will not cringe. I objected, and my objection stands." As for Woodrow Wilson: "Every word I said about him on this floor, and every word that is in the Record, I said on the public rostrum in the state of South Carolina in the presence of thousands while he was living, and while his agents from the Department of Justice were stenographically reporting my remarks to the department and trying to put me in jail...
Last week the trustees called another Methodist and he heard them and said he would go unto them. He was Dr. Daniel Lash Marsh of Pittsburgh, aged 45, alumnus of Northwestern University, Garrett Biblical Institute, Chicago University and Boston University. Ordained in 1903, Dr. Marsh served seven years in small Pennsylvania towns until called to Sewickley, socially prominent suburb of Pittsburgh. There he paid the church debt, multiplied the congregation...
Throughout France the lash is by no means entirely taboo, either as a subject for the profuse disquisitions of literary flagellants, or as a means of provoking those alleged pleasures and undoubted pains which were erected into a system by the notorious Count Donatien Alphonse François Sade (1740-1814), the so-called "Marquis de Sade...
...rush, jerked back his head, made the flesh puff around his eyes. Again he charged, again the haggard challenger flicked ' him, right, left. For 13 rounds, the sturdy champion took a dreadful drubbing. Then, with that obstinate, fantastic courage that sometimes animates beaten men, he began to lash out furiously, to force his victorious but weary opponent to duck, cover up, retreat. No use; his arms were slack with fatigue. At the end of the 15th round, the referee lifted the hand of the challenger, Charley ("Phil") Rosenberg, thus giving him the title of the champion, Eddie ("Cannoonball") Martin...
...press headlined "Coolidge Feels Saving Lash," "Coolidge is Victim of Own Thrift," etc.. apropos of the fact that the President has had the White House budget reduced $12,500. Incidents of the retrenchment: replacement of paper drinking cups by old-fashioned glasses; no free pencils for newspaper correspondents; reduction of the number of towels placed daily in White House office lavatories from 175 to 88; orders that all lights be turned out promptly when not needed; repeated use of manila envelopes for documents to be carried from one department to another; rationing, by weight, of food in the White...