Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cool and self-confident was Premier Nahas for he knew he had the whip hand. Egypt off her own bat can legally renounce the capitulatory privileges of any power as she did in 1923 in Russia's case. The Premier preferred not to resort to highhandedness, yet it was crystal-clear to the delegates that he had won his battle before he started. The nub of the discussion was whether or not Egypt would be willing to abolish capitulations by slow degrees...
...Rudy Rudynoff's four concentric circles of prancing horses have been augmented this year by the appearance-in the centre, holding a whip and a Great Dane-of statuesque Mile Maria Rasputin, billed as the Mad Monk's Daughter, who was out with the Hagenbeck Wallace Circus two years...
...first two cars managed to keep to the rails as the juggernaut sped around the corner from Brattle Street into Massachusetts Avenue, but this mechanized game of crack-the-whip was too much for car No. 3, which jumped the track, carrying Nos. 1 and 3 with it five feet off the roadbed...
Only trouble with this system from the Long standpoint was that in 1934 his enemy T. Semmes Walmsley used it to get re-elected Mayor of New Orleans. So two years ago Huey Long, striding up and down the aisles of his Legislature and cracking the whip, passed a law placing the naming of election officials in the hands of a board the majority of which was appointed by his Governor. Thereafter Longsters counted the votes...
...know whether or not he was intoxicated when picked up by police. Asked Judge Hatch: "Did everything sort of wave up and down? . . . Did you feel mighty happy and grand, and love every one in the whole world? And did you also feel like you could whip the pants off any mother's son alive...