Word: lynch
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...press statement, before the Senate censure debate began, McCarthy called the whole affair a "lynch bee." Again, said Watkins, "I call attention to the fact that he did not come into the Senate to do that...
Merrill, a senior partner in the investment firm of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, has instituted the professorship in honor of a leading heart specialist, Dr. Samuel A. Levine '10. Levine is a personal friend of Merrill's who, the financier said, "has helped me to a great degree from time to time--indeed, I believe he has saved my life...
...expected form by abusing the fellow Senators who might have given him a lenient hearing. In doing so, he has flopped from his celestial altar. Although Senators are willing to believe the world has gone to hell, they will scarcely allow a colleague to insist they are a lynch party driving it there...
...Herald Tribune: "The saloons of Virginia City," he rhapsodizes, "then and now the drinkingest community in all the wide, wonderful, boozy world-what profligate enchantments were not latent in the mere roll call of their names, perfumed with intimate association and Old Noble Treble Crown Whiskey! There were Pat Lynch's Place, The Old Magnolia, The Smokery. Gentry & Crittenden's, and the Howling Wilderness, a premises which never at any hour of the 24 betrayed the promise of commotional doings implicit in its name...
...aging ladies with whom she rooms are a sweet-and-sour pair of spinster sisters. The sour one treats embroidery as the first law of life, but the sweet one clucks over Nora like a mother and puts in a word now and then about Peter Lynch, the headmaster at Nora's school, and what a nice husband he would make...