Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failed to salute the War Dead" and was tattled on by a toady. An officer who might have intervened leaves the room with the admonition: "Be careful, fellows." The victim is then tied to a double-deck bed, burned with a cigarette, given 18 lashes with a whip, hospitalized. The outraged medical officer demands that Thornton be expelled, threatens to resign and expose the school if he is not. In the course of his tirade it appears that because the school heads wink at the manly dissipations of a soldier, six of the boys have contracted syphilis. The commandant retorts...
...always insists that such new activities shall be legalized by proper constitutional amendment. It always will. It approves the horse-and-buggy method of changing the Constitution, and it disapproves a philosophy that laughs at the horse-and-buggy method and wants to use only the buggy whip. ... It prefers a government guided by constitutions to a government guided only by caprice. . . . Whatever concrete measures the Republican Party has in mind will be presented to the voters before election, not after...
...China the function of the Generalissimo's in-laws, the Family of Soong. Since famed Mr. T. V. Soong, chairman of the board of the Bank of China, could not be spared to go South, his able brother Mr. T. L. Soong was drafted to whip order out of South China's foamy fiscal chaos...
...Guard last week. By order of Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, all editors in the Fatherland were barred from ever printing another sports article by Boxing Expert Arthur Billow, who had predicted in Berlin's 12 Uhr Blatt that Negro Joe Louis would whip the German fisticuffer in Manhattan. As the dirigible Hindenburg neared Frankfurt with Schmeling aboard, Dr. Goebbels rushed the pugilist's mother and his wife, German Cinemactress Anny Ondra, to meet him in a Government plane. Berlin tax experts figured that of Schmeling's $150,000 fight profits...
Should Japan obtain the whip hand in Canton and South China which she already holds in Peiping and North China, the so-called "National Government of the Republic of China" at Nanking would be squeezed between two red-hot tongs of Japanese Might. Last week's developments reduced to absurdity an edifying statement read to the House of Commons by Britain's polite Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, in which Japan was censured for abetting Japanese smugglers to evade the Chinese customs, at the expense of law-abiding British traders...