Word: thrashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shore where the tide was beginning to ebb and help them along. The race was between them, but Vanitie decided it. Gerard Lambert, at Vanitie's wheel, is a member of the Weetamoe syndicate. Vanitie is Weetamoe's trial horse. So whenever he could in the long thrash on the wind, Lambert slipped up and took Enterprise's wind, letting Weetamoe slip ahead...
...from Avalon, his estate at Princeton, N. J., last week sallied Dr. Henry van Dyke, 77, Presbyterian, verbally to thrash Dr. Clarence True Wilson, 58, Methodist, for Dr. Wilson's insults to Dr. van Dyke's father, the late famed Dr. Henry Jackson van Dyke of Brooklyn. Dr. Wilson, general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, had written a report, kept secret until dragged forth by the Senate Lobby Committee, on the Board's war against the "foes" of Prohibition before the 1928 presidential elections. Dr. van Dyke was perplexed to find himself...