Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Selassie formed his Imperial Guard on Chessad Ezba, a mountain eight miles from Lake Ashangi, spread his support on surrounding peaks. Marshal Badoglio had assembled 200 bombing and pursuit planes. He had Alpini and Sabauda Divisions facing the Ethiopian Guard and was able, after an amazing forced march, to whip another division of leather-footed Eritrean native troops along Haile Selassie's right flank...
...Furlong, married to Pamela Kingsmill and fatter than a year ago, was too heavy to ride his father's horse but Reynoldstown was in the race again, patently unaware of the hazards that tradition placed against his winning. The first time round, his rider, Fulke Walwyn, lost his whip but Reynoldstown stayed with the leaders without urging. As Davy Jones took the third fence from the finish, Reynoldstown was a strong second, with the remaining ten horses in the field, including the U. S. entries, Pete Bostwick's Castle Irwell and John Hay Whitney's Double Crossed...
...whip-hand Radical-Militarist circles the Hirota Cabinet declaration was greeted with the criticism that it was couched in too general terms, the Radical-Militarists demanding that "each ministry should announce concrete plans." First to do so was the Home Ministry, now headed by a Japanese Civil Service career official of great gumption, Mr. Keinosuke Ushio. "I am taking immediate steps to inaugurate nationwide health insurance," he barked. "Thus the Home Ministry will 'stabilize the people's living...
...Sidney Webb have grown old together in the Socialist faith. Their compendious, accurate, statistical books have been their well-brought-up children. As busy as ants', and no noisier, they have never mounted a soapbox nor slapped a policeman in their lives. Bernard Shaw was the wisecracking Fabian whip; the Webbs were the wheel horses. Climax to their plodding career came in 1929, when the Labor Government made Sidney Webb Lord Passfield, put him in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for the Colonies & Dominions. Though the Webbs are now in their seventies they cannot break the working habits...
...sleeper every Monday night, awakened in Chicago next morning to broadcast verse and chit-chat for Household Finance Corp. Last October he, his wife and daughter went to Hollywood where he was to make three homespun pictures for Universal. He waited around three months while the company tried to whip together a story suitable to it and him. Meantime, Universal was not only Daying Guest's salary but $1,200 a week toll charges so that he could broadcast from his Chicago outlet. "My parents always told me it was impossible to get something for nothing," he wrote...