Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason of its star, Clint Frank, and a season without defeat, Yale was top-heavy favorite to whip Harvard, which had been beaten by Dartmouth and Army. The equalizing factor was that Harvard had beaten Princeton, and the only thing Harvard would rather do than beat Yale or Princeton is beat them both. It had not done so since 1915. Harvard drew first blood in the second quarter when Ray Daughters caught a forward pass and shook off two Yale tacklers, scored. In the next quarter Yale got moving, and the great Frank bounced off the Yale line...
...President took his swing across the country and returned, brimming with confidence, and assured that he would again hold the whip hand. But, during the summer, what Mr. Roosevelt himself referred to in his message to Congress as a "marked recession" in business, set in, and the tide began to run out fast...
GREAT LEVELER - Thomas Frederick Woodley-Stackpole ($3.50). Cautious mud-removal job on "the most despicable, malevolent and morally deformed character who has ever risen to high power in America," clubfooted, sardonic, bachelor Thaddeus Stevens, Lincoln's powerful House whip, hard-bitten champion of the Reconstruction Act, the 14th Amendment, Andrew Johnson's impeachment...
...from the beginning, General Johnson still composes his pieces (in his Manhattan hotel suite, his Washington apartment or his Bethany Beach cottage) while pacing the floor. Faithful Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson sets the harangue down on paper, helps the General whip it into literary shape later. It is then wired to United Feature's Managing Editor William Laas, who deletes the outright libel and graver profanity, sends the copy smoking on its way to the presses...
...will sing Home on the Range, a song from Apple Blossoms, Largo al Factotum from The Barber of Seville, as they were written. But next week Kostelanetz will excise large chunks from the Naila Waltz of Delibes, the Caprice Espagnol of Rimsky-Korsakov, and Pianist José Iturbi will whip through the finale of a Mozart sonata in 3 min. He will also play the piano part of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, minus only 4 min. of its 16-min. length...