Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kangaroo actually concerns itself with some goings-on in the South Australian cattle country during an unseasonable drought. But the full screenplay is hopelessly complicated and extremely disjointed, involving among other things a long lost son, a gambling house murder, a stampede, a dust storm, and a bull whip fight. Under these circumstances, the only way to retain your peace of mind is to abandon all attempts at following the story and take each incident as it comes...
...constituents) must stand aloof from the rough & tumble of partisan politics. For seven years, benign, learned Sean O'Kelly has held the $32,000-a-year job and his tongue as well. It came hard to a man who was once as outspoken ("We'll whip John Bull yet! . . .") in the cause of Irish freedom as any in the land. Last month, as his first seven-year term drew to a close, O'Kelly faced the privilege granted to all outgoing Irish Presidents of nominating himself for reelection. He confided to a friend that he would...
...Crimson will have to play its best game so far to whip the Huskies, who lead the Boston area colleges with a record of eight wins and one defeat. The team bounced back from a loss to B. U. last week, which ended its six-game winning streak, to whip hot Rhode Island State squad in ten innings last Saturday...
...introduced or helped to foster such notables as James Joyce, Aldous Huxley. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Theodore Dreiser and Eugene O'Neill. They also became trademarks of the "lost generation" along with hot jazz, bobbed hair and the hip flask. Mencken lashed out at the "booboisie" with a bull whip; the debonair Nathan was content to use a swizzle stick. In the eyes of the proper-minded, the two iconoclasts were unholy terrors. A couplet of those days went...
...Bruins will use the same lineup that opened here last week, including ace pitcher Ken Moffat, a right hander who looked good in his previous outing against the Crimson. Since that time, the Brown team has managed to whip Rhode Island State, in its only game, while Harvard has won one and lost one, against the Elis, a team which Brown has beaten twice. The Crimson will also field the same team that has played the last three games...