Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clyde Beatty, 27, of Chillicothe, Ohio, "THE FEARLESS & YOUTHFUL TRAINER DEMONSTRATING MAN'S POWER OVER FEROCIOUS BEASTS OF THE JUNGLE." While lurid red lights play on a circular cage in the centre ring. Trainer Beatty, armed with whip, chair and blank-loaded revolver, assembles some 40 lions & tigers, puts them through paces. The beasts snarl, hiss, roar, paw each other and Mr. Beatty, but nobody is hurt. The lions & tigers are frequently stubborn, which gives Mr. Beatty an opportunity to demonstrate his undeniable courage. Sometimes one will leap at him; then his revolver makes lightning in the dim cage...
...several years. Brother of Manhattan's Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, Lawyer Fosdick was onetime Under Secretary General of the League of Nations, is now chief almoner to the House of Rockefeller. Died. Albert Henry Vestal, 57, U. S. Representative from the 8th Indiana District since 1917, Republican Whip of the House; of heart disease; in Washington. Congressman Sirovich's predecessor as chairman of the Committee on Patents & Copyrights, he long sought copyright protection for artists, writers, composers. Last year he saw his bill, providing copyright automatically upon creation, die in the Senate because of the one-man filibuster...
...action against the ribs and head of his opponent. The little fighter's flat nose, freshly broken, bubbled redly as he snorted for breath. His head rocked as punch after punch landed on it. But on & on he went, crowding, slamming, tearing in like a madman trying, to whip a triphammer. Madison Square Garden, jammed to the eaves, thundered with bloodthirsty applause and excitement...
Much of the work of the Model Assembly is done in Committees, which whip into shape subjects to be discussed at the Plenary Sessions of the Assembly proper. From Harvard, Messrs. Rubin, Shuebruck, Daniels, Loring and Portal are working upon problems incidental to the task of disarmament. Messrs. Furlong, Blinn, Hoffman, Davis, and Kersten are studying the question of revision of treaties, with especial reference to the pressing dispute over the Polish Corridor. Economic problems, with emphasis laid upon debts, reparations, and tariffs, will be considered...
...went out to ask Albert Johnson a few questions. They knocked on the cabin door, but Albert Johnson did not answer. Three bullets splintered the door and smashed into Constable King's chest. McDowell did not wait. He dragged his friend to their sledge and cracked his snake whip as loud as Hermit Johnson's rifle. Tongues out, the husky dogs plunged forward. They made the 100 miles back to Aklavik in 20 hours. It was a record and it saved Constable King's life...