Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most publicized feature of General Motors' 1935 Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles are their "turret tops," which are exuberantly compared to the gun turrets of battleships. Immensely strong, sleek, graceful, they are shaped in a single mighty operation from single sheets of seamless steel. To whip them out the company's Fisher Body division has 18 giant new presses, largest of the kind ever built. Glowering edifices of gears, shafting, cable, motors and massive slides, the tallest of them tower 27 ft. above the floors, extend down another 12½ ft. into concrete pits. They deliver against the blanks...
...follows is probably the loudest in history, an uproar of brasses, tympani, cymbals. Shostakovich again uses a waltz, this time to satirize the prowling father-in-law who catches Sergei as he climbs out the window. In the flogging scene the audience could fairly hear the swish of the whip. When the father-in-law lay dying, Soviet scorn of the church was equally apparent. The priest who performed the perfunctory rites sang a song which sounded like a rowdy equivalent of "Hail. Hail, the Gang's All Here!" Musicians in last week's audience sat fascinated...
...Texas, Governor James V. Allred gave a dinner, invited the Sängerbund, a German singing society. To paunchy, egg-bald Dr. Luther the Sängerbund presented a ten-gallon hat. "The cowboys," put in Dry Governor Allred, "use these hats for sunshades, pillows at night, to whip unruly broncos or to drink out of." Dr. Luther: To drink? Ten gallons? Water...
...reason of his political triumphs on Election Day and in the choice of Speaker and Majority Leader of the House, Senator Guffey harvested the reward of power. One of his followers was made Democratic whip of the House and another was put on the important Ways & Means Committee. And Joe Guffey himself got a seat on the equally potent Senate Finance Committee...
...biggest thing against Representative Byrns was that New Dealers did not really want him for Speaker. They wanted a hard-headed parliamentarian who could say "No" convincingly and whip an unwieldy Democratic majority into obedience. "Joe" Byrns, who was raised on a Tennessee farm and has spent 26 years as a Democratic wheelhorse in the House, did not fill those specifications. Texas' Representative Sam Rayburn became, in effect, the New Deal's candidate. Louis Howe was anxious to see him get the job and Vice President Garner sent a letter to the Texas delegation in the House urging them...