Word: lashings
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...minutes, as part of his official sentence he would be taken downstairs, strapped to the wooden triangle. His heart would be tested by the hospital orderly, and in the presence of the assembled J. P.'s he would receive 15 stinging, blood-raising strokes from the inch-thick lash. If as almost invariably happens, he should faint during the flagellation, the orderly was there to stop the beatings, apply restoratives until the prisoner resumed consciousness, if he should...
...Prohibition Commissioner Doran sent a chill through his audience when he declared: "If under the lash of extremists, harsh and restrictive measures are adopted toward scientific and industrial groups [using alcohol], we will witness a terrific blow to scientific and commercial progress. . . . The crippling of our institutions, our medical arts and our commercial organizations . . . is too big a price to pay for this extreme brand of Prohibition...
...potency test of a French Prime Minister is whether he can lash his budget through the Chamber of Deputies by Jan. 1. Nobody had done it for years until 1926, when great Raymond Poincaré made budget punctuality the crux of his saviorship of the franc. Last week the savior's smart disciple and successor, Prime Minister André Tardieu. battled to equal the record of his chief, battled also to vindicate his own nickname, "The Most American of Frenchmen" (TIME...
...hearing about them or looking at their photographs or reading their letters are usually found only in empurpled romances. The Theatre Guild's seasonal curtain-raiser attempts to make such a man seem a creature of reality. In a Russian prison camp, Hero Karl is tortured by the lash of his captors and by the sick, contagious desire of his fellow-prisoner Richard for his wife Anna. Richard vividly describes Anna's habits, her womanliness, the mole on her hip, until Karl feels that he knows her as well as her husband and wants her even more...
...course of West Point history has been admirably recounted in the following story written for the Crimson by Cadet P. H. Lash II of The Pointer staff...