Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the village of Banyuls (Byrrh is also made close by, at Thuir) are made from other types of wines, to which are added essential oils from certain herbs, to give the requisite tastes, a certain amount of quinine, which gives the necessary coup de fouet (crack of the whip) to the appetite, a certain amount of sugar to counteract the bitter taste of the quinine, and a certain amount of alcohol to bring it up to or 18 degrees, which assures the stabilization of the mixture...
...Green, Wis. Loudly C. R. Sechrest demanded $282 which he said was owing his wife for cooking at Taliesin. They scuffled fell in the gutter, Sechrest's knee broke Wright's nose. Two nights later five of Wright's students called on Sechrest with a blacksnake whip, shouting "Kill the s-o-b-!" Sechrest drove them out with a butcher knife, had them arrested. The judge thought $100 fine and 60 days in jail "inadequate...
Rumania has learned to sit up and do tricks when France cracks her whip, usually by offering or withholding a loan. Last week Bucharest's whole political setup was knocked down and rebuilt to please Paris...
...first week on space netted him $72.58, princely for that day. Added to a good reporter's alertness to detail were O'Malley's Irish humor and sensitivity to pathos. Combined they made him a master of the human interest story. Also they enabled him to whip out columns of newspaper humor when news was thin. The Sun printed them at prodigious length...
...title came home from the U. S. Miss Margery Kirkham of Montreal's Forest Hills club was the heroine, at Kanawaki. Quebec. By 4 & 2 she turned back the last U. S. player, Bernice Wall of Oshkosh. Wis.. in the semifinals, then went on to whip Mrs. Charles Eddis of Toronto in the final. 3 & 2. Square-jawed Maureen Orcutt of Englewood, N. J. was not there to defend her title. Neither was Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, champion...