Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not let even Adolf Hitler beat me. They say that he once took away my riding whip and beat me with it, but not so! I had lost my whip and when he saw I was without it he bought...
Muffs It would be too bad if a lady about to be presented at Buckingham Palace should whip a pistol out of her muff. That Scotland Yard had put this idea into Queen Mary's head was London's impression last week when the Lord Chamberlain announced, ''Her Majesty desires that muffs be not worn...
...finish in first place in the League this year. This will be galling to some, who spent the fall gushing about the big prospects, but with all the trials and tribulations of the season taken into account, and with the amount of Sophomore material it was necessary to whip into shape, the record of the season was very creditable. There is little doubt in the minds of those who are in contact with the game at Harvard that Wes Fesler has materially raised the standard of Harvard basketball, and that the hopes for the future are still rosy...
...smart promoter raised the idea of This Week two years ago, he found Joseph Knapp ready and eager to back it. Since his first attempt, Mr. Knapp had built up Alco Gravure, Inc., biggest rotogravure printers in the U. S. He acquired high-speed color presses that could whip out four copies per second of a magazine the size of This Week. With difficulty, Mr. Knapp's salesmen sold the idea to the 21 newspapers. Then they stormed the advertisers, booked for the first year some $7,000,000 worth of business...
Washington, Feb. 19--The White House whip crackled tonight over rebellious Democrats as the Administration sought to whip into line sufficient votes to defeat the embattled wage amendment to the $4,880,000,000 (B) works bill in the Senate tomorrow...