Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cluttered the Navy's way even before the last increases were voted, the U. S. people impatiently asked: How soon could all the new ships be off paper and in the water? The question was an old one. Romans asked it in 260 B.C., when Carthage cracked the whip in the Mediterranean. Rome's winning answer was its first fleet-100 galleys, knocked together on the beaches with hammer and saw in 60 days. But tomorrow's Navy is no two-month building job. Rear Admirals Samuel M. Robinson and Ben Moreell, the Navy's chiefs...
...written by Emily Bronte if she and her prose had pernicious anemia but were not otherwise seriously indisposed. The scene: a chateau in Normandy, cradled between the noises of the sea and a huge house of doves. The villainess: Aunt Barbe, an aging beauty with a body like a whip, fox-red hair, a spoiled child's genius for misusing others, and a voracity for doing evil which grows in ratio to her sense of guilt. She works out on her niece Henrietta, on her sheeplike old nurse Nana, on the peasants, on an intense young priest who manages...
Twelve years ago George M. Cohan and the late, great Ring Lardner pooled their talents and their mutual enthusiasm for baseball, produced Elmer the Great, a farcical saga of a rookie pitcher with an arm like a whip and a Model T brain. A story goes when Lardner first saw the show on Broadway, he was convinced that it was terrible. He acknowledged as his own only one line of the script. He underestimated both the play and his part in its conception. Elmer spoke Ring Lardners language, proved as durable as his Alibi Ike. Last week, with...
...gave a good account of itself. But even then, to get a U. S. army into the field as a fighting unit took 16 months, and only the Allies' ability to hold the Germans gave a small corps of U. S. professional officers time to whip a huge citizen army into reasonably presentable shape...
Owned by the Hammond-Calumet Broadcasting Corp., of which Dr. George F. Courrier, a Methodist minister, is chief stockholder, WHIP does a lot of religious broadcasting. Welcoming the estimated $1,000 a week that G. A. N. A. pays for time, WHIP's director, plumpish, blonds Doris Keane, asserts: "Our programs are 100% American." Among commercial touches on the G. A.N>A> show are occasional plugs for Dr. Silge, who is a Chicago optometrist. Says Dr. Silge: "The newspapers may call us fifth columnists, but they can't prove it because it isn't true...