Word: whipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alone in ridiculing Lord Macmillan's Ministry was the House of Commons. In the Minister's own House of Lords next day Opposition Whip Lord Strabolgi poked gentle fun at him: "Lord Macmillan's position is that he is lying on his back with three Defense Ministers sitting on his chest." (Laughter.) There was need, said Lord Strabolgi, for a man with "journalistic flair" to make the Ministry a powerful department as it was in World War I under Britain's late, great news baron, Lord Northcliffe...
...coffee-skinned Negress of 29. There is small chance that Willa Beatrice Brown will ever fly for the Army or Navy, but as Secretary of the National (Negro) Airmen's Association and one of the few Negro aviatrices holding a limited commercial license, she has labored mightily to whip up interest in flying among Negroes, get them a share in C. A. A.'s training program. She runs Brown's Lunch Room at Harlem Airport near Chicago, is partner in a flying service there. White people are sometimes surprised when they find her piloting them on pleasure...
...scouring of the subversive underworld, rawboned Martin Dies of Texas, First Whip of the Red Hunting pack, never put on the stand a real, live, honest-to-goodness Communist. At his House Committee on Un-American Activities hearing last week in Washington he could have reached out and touched one: wispy, unobtrusive Earl Browder, general secretary (at $40 a week) of the Communist Party, its 1936 Presidential candidate...
...devout in Warsaw went to mass. A few hours later they flocked to an international soccer match, were well pleased to see the Poles whip the Hungarians, 4-to-2. In bright red trolleys still carrying advertisements of German products, they rode to see Shirley Temple in The Little Princess. They bought lottery tickets in the tobacco shops. The best people still went to lunch at 2:30 and dragged it out until 6, sipped Kimmel at the streamlined Cafe Adria, laughed heartily over Geneva, a play by brash old Bernard Shaw about three dictators named Herr Battler, Signer Bombardone...
...Bolivian Army during the Gran Chaco War; in Lugano, Switzerland. In 1918, mustered out of the German Army, Kundt migrated with his family to Bolivia, became a Bolivian citizen. When the Chaco war broke, Bolivia made him head of the Army, cashiered him when he failed to whip Paraguay...