Word: lashing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...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...
...closing of Congress gave Senator Pat Harrison some fine opportunities to tongue-lash Republicans, and he was not slow to seize his opportunities...
...According to Evelyn's testimony under oath, he summoned her from her bed into a great baronial hall, suddenly drew forth a heavy whip and then began furiously to lash her. He would, and did punish her because she had not come to him as a lily of the fields. Harry Thaw wanted everything and thought he had enough money to get everything-even decency...