Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stood at 15 to 9, figured in Justices, not dollars. Last week few people would give better odds than 11 to 9, and some figured 9 to 9. Washington's political wiseacres, who at first counted on the power of the New Deal's political machine to whip reluctant Senators into line, the persuasion of Franklin Roosevelt's irresistible tongue to swing public opinion, realized one thing which they had failed to take into account: the ability of nine old men immured in a neoclassic temple to outmaneuver the ablest politician...
...them he then addressed, in grim good humor, his famed "tough guy" speech: "I have come back with all sorts of new lessons which I learned from barracuda and sharks . . . etc., etc." (TIME, April 23, 1934). Within a few days the revolt was over and Congress settled down to whip through the President's long list of "must" legislation...
Philip Nolan was a shady horse dealer from Louisiana who was shot in 1801 by the Spaniards he had cheated. Edward Everett Hale was a Boston minister who helped whip up Union sentiment during the Civil War. When politicians like Clement Vallandigham of Ohio began to recommend separatism, Dr. Hale wrote The Man Without a Country as an object lesson. Dr. Hale named his hero Philip Nolan, built around him a story of treason and punishment so detailed that it sounded true. In the story Nolan is arrested for plotting with Aaron Burr to found a kingdom in the Southwest...
...nothing to it." This was an exaggeration but after the first turn, there was never a moment when it looked as though War Admiral might lose. Coming into the stretch, Jerome H. Louchheim's Pompoon challenged him for the lead. Jockey Kurtsinger touched War Admiral once with his whip and drew away. At the end of the race. War Admiral was going easily, almost two lengths ahead. Pompoon was second, eight lengths ahead of Mrs. Ethel Mars's Reaping Reward who nosed out the rest of the field for third place. To War Admiral's owner went...
From Harvard's collections of original drawings by Audubon, there are shown colored portraits of the passenger pigeon, now extinct, and that of the American widgeon, ivory billed woodpecker, red owl, frog eater, chuck will's widow, yellow billed cuckoo, whip-poor-will, and others. Audubon's early work as a young man of twenty-three along the Ohio river is shown in drawings of the belted kingfisher, red-winged blackbird, and cat bird...