Word: whipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came to bat in the third inning. Pitcher Hallahan of the St. Louis Cardinals, wild in the second inning when the American League scored its first run. had already given Detroit's Gehringer a base on balls. Now, pitching to Ruth, he made the mistake of trying to whip a strike across the plate. There was that sharp familiar crack and the ball sailed up over first base into the pavilion beyond right field...
Thus last week spoke a happy, happy President as he squiggled ''Franklin D. Roosevelt" at the bottom of the biggest piece of legislation he had gotten from an adjourning Congress. At the signing ceremony Senators and Representatives who had helped to whip the measure through just as the President wanted it beamed their pride and approval over the Roosevelt shoulder...
Having been in office three months, the Roosevelt Administration last week blundered into what Republicans tried to whip up as its first "scandal." At the demand of Wyoming's Republican Carey the Senate Military Affairs Committee began to investigate the Civilian Conservation Corps' purchase of toilet kits for jobless workers-in-the-woods...
...Hyperion galloping two lengths behind, till the race rounded Tattenham Corner. There Thrapston lagged. Weston shouted to Donoghue to pull over. Instantly Hyperion shot ahead on the inside rail, with King Salmon pounding at his heels. Once he began to slow up, but at a single crack from the whip he raced away from the field, plunged over the line four lengths ahead of King Salmon, splitting two-fifths of a second off the Derby record. King Salmon, the entry of Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, finished second; Statesman, owned by ambitious Victor Emanuel, president of U. S. Electric Power Corp...
...whip up some of the oldtime spirit that characterized the trimmer, grimmer A. E. F., President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps, the army of jobless forestry workers, last week commenced publishing its own weekly, Happy Days ("The Newspaper with a Smile"). Edited from Washington by Melvin Ryder, Vol. I No. 1 was frankly imitative of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. Cartoonist Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren of Stars & Stripes supplied humorous sketches of C. C. C. camp life. A Cyrus Leroy Baldridge drawing ("Peeling Spuds") was reprinted from Stars & Stripes. Pages of photographs showed enlistment lines, chow...