Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sister Harriet Beecher Stowe, sat down and addressed a letter to his parishioners: "Avail yourselves of a rare opportunity to hear a style of music rapidly passing away, music . . . sung as only they can sing it who know how to keep time to a master's whip...
...patrons. This property is a very tiny drop indeed in Mr. Rockefeller's bucket of show business holdings. Recently the Rockefellers acquired 100,000 shares of R-K-O securities "as a result of rental adjustments" at Radio City. Mr. Rockefeller is also the handle on a whip whose popper is another entertainment chain. He is reputed one of the largest stockholders in Chase National Bank. Chase National is the banking sponsor of General Theatres Equipment Corp. (in receivership), which controls Fox Film Corp. with which is affiliated Film Securities Corp. which controls Loew...
...gallery. His delivery is marked by physical violence, his whole body vibrating, his pointed finger shooting skyward. His voice is loud and clear, with words coming out like bursts from a machine gun. He sprinkles exclamatory "Sirl's" throughout his text and makes homely words crack like a whip. His humor is cold, caustic, unsmiling. A speech by him is a highly emotional event for all concerned...
...Democrat who casts the longest shadow in the 72nd House is most likely to rule over the 73rd. Candidates- Exclusive of ambitious upstarts, three eminent Representatives are in the race-Tennessee's Joseph Wellington Byrns, cadaverous chairman of the Appropriations Committee; Alabama's John McDuffie, Democratic "whip" of the House; and Illinois' Henry Thomas Rainey, big (275 lb.), broad, white-maned Majority Leader. Their intraparty contest was the essence of politics and each is a consummate politician. By tradition the leader of a House majority succeeds to the Speakership. That is how John Nance Garner, now Vice...
...budget slashes and salary cuts which were called for by Mayor McKee and which were immediately nullified by the Tammany-controlled Board, will at last be realized. Nor will this work be easily undone, for so long as the bankers hold the mortgage, they can crack the whip...