Word: whiplashes
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...face of it, Hardy was poorly endowed for poetry. He has none of Tennyson's elegance, little of Browning's knack for the whiplash phrase. His music creaks, his language limps. One critic compared his rhythms to the rattling of a milk cart, and Author Blunden, with more justice, writes that Hardy the poet "is ever on the road . . . tackling the stony hill rises...
...which looks like (but usually disagrees with) the pink-eyed Nation, is still generally unfriendly to Franco. Its "progressive opinion" has stirred up many a furor among Catholics. A strong voice of the anti-Communist left, Commonweal is pro-union and consumer cooperatives, and anti-bigotry. It used to whiplash Detroit's ranting Father Coughlin, and blamed Boston's Catholic Irish for the long, grubby reign of Mayor James Michael Curley. When gravediggers at a New York Catholic cemetery struck last year for higher wages, and Cardinal Spellman personally led the strikebreakers, Commonweal sided with the workers. When...
...court named a trustee to try to get the prostrate horse to its feet again, a new whiplash struck it. The Federal Trade Commission complained that Hadacol's leeringly prurient ballyhoo ("The Hadacol boogie makes you boogie-woogie all the time") is "false, misleading and deceptive" in representing the nostrum as "an effective treatment and cure for scores of ailments and diseases...
...Whiplash (Warner). The hero of this gory battle royal (Dane Clark) gets tagged on the jaw, slugged with a blackjack, kicked in the head and punched orie-eyed in a boxing bout. Since most of this mauling is done by thugs who work for the husband of his beautiful, frozen-faced girl (Alexis Smith), poor dear Dane suffers without a whimper. Toward the end, there is some talk of sending him off to a hospital to have his head examined-an idea which might have saved a lot of trouble earlier in the story...
While the producers of Whiplash seem chiefly interested in illustrating the varied arts of mayhem, they were not able to resist dragging in a little Moral Problem. Clark, the human punching bag, is getting the treatment because he wants to rescue Alexis from her sinister mate (Zachary Scott) and retire from bad fights to paint bad pictures. The catch is that the wicked husband is paralyzed from the waist down, and thinks up his villainies in a wheelchair. No hero can sock a man in a wheelchair; no heroine can divorce him. How to get rid of him? Whiplash solves...