Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...punctually Editor Aymard and Cartoonist Sennep turned up arm-in-arm in La Salle des Pas-Perdus (the hall of lost footsteps) in which journalists and deputies pace. They were set upon by a pack of Socialist statesmen. Elderly Editor Aymard jerked a dog whip from his pocket, laid about him. Deputy Barthe, a questor of the Chamber, rushed up in an attempt to preserve order as was his duty, caught the whip full across his face...
...Socialist grabbed the Nationalist dog whip. Struggling and writhing the mass of embattled Deputies and journalists bore down upon a large plate glass door, shat tered the glass, broke through the wood work and spilled the entire scrimmage out onto the lawn of the Palais-Bourbon...
...Bible, he has written 41 thriller-novels, eight thriller-plays, runs a daily column about racehorses, another about the theatre. Last year incredible Mr. Wallace visited two days in Chicago, part of which time he spent with the city's police force. It took him another two days to whip into shape a play about Chicago gangsters and the outcome is On The Spot. Under such circumstances any play which might have resulted would have been creditable. Characteristically, the Wallace play is amusing, scary, good...
Whipcracker? What did President Herbert Hoover do about all this? If Washington holds a whip hand over Havana (as most Latin Americans believe) surely now the whip would crack...
Viceroy's Plan. From the "dizzy heights" of Simla a brief cable pictured Viceroy Lord Irwin as "laboring night and day" to whip together "a proposal alternative to the report of the Simon Commission [TIME, June 30 et ante] and much more liberal." This means that the Viceroy himself is a rebel against the Simon Report, which nearly all Indians consider too reactionary and which a probable plurality of Englishmen (including all the Conservatives) hold to be too liberal...