Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Salem, N. H.) the urchin who was riding Quick Step scarcely heard the crowd at the rail yelling, "Come on, Westrope." Jockey Westrope paid more attention to the pounding of hoofs coming up closer and closer behind him, made by Bun D, with Jockey Porter up. He drew his whip, leaned forward in his stirrup, almost lifted Quick Step across the finish line-still ahead by barely a nose. It was the second race that Jockey Westrope had won that afternoon. It brought his record for the year to 226 winners out of 890 mounts, far ahead...
...when the five began to dive on the innocent-seeming line of buoys, blazing away with machine guns. Four times the planes circled and dived, the machine guns hammering savagely. On the fifth dive, one plane fell at the rowboat. Its machine gun lashed the little craft with a whip of lead. One of the girls, Jean Chesterton, 17, fell dead, shot through. Her sister grabbed the oars, splashed frantically shoreward...
...side" in the starboard accommodation ladder gangway, as part of the ceremony in formally receiving commissioned officers and distinguished civil officials, is a hangover from the time when ships had no accommodation ladders and guests reached the deck seated in a boatswain's chair attached to a whip. Orders to "walk away handsomely" on the whip were given through the boatswain's pipe (whistle...
When an elderly and portly flag-officer or captain was being received more hands were required to man the whip than in the case of a younger and presumably slighter lieutenant, say. So, the number of "side-boys" stationed at the ladder today varies with the rank of the guest being received. Also present-day "piping of the side" is a relic of the old order to walk away on the whip...
...mass meeting culminated a week of slowly gathering public indignation. Chicago's Hearstian Herald & Examiner had helped to whip it up with daily scourgings of the "handful of political appointees'' attempting "to wreck the city's school system and rob her 500,000 school children of their educational birthright." A "Save Our Schools" committee had sprung into fervent being. Claiming to represent 40 civic organizations, it had deluged the city with petitions, dodgers, tickets for the mass meeting. Other clubs and societies had pelted the board with protests. Cried the Tax Service Association of Illinois: "What...