Word: whipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm near South Wethersfield, likes to hunt, fish, trapshoot. Last fortnight, in a field test with four other applicants for the job, she proved her skill with rod & reel, her knowledge of flies, knots, trout. Publisher Beck expects her to turn out many a woman angler able to whip Connecticut's 32 State-leased trout streams with the best...
...true temper of Congress was not to be accurately judged by such backstage talk. There were some hurt prides in House and Senate but the President still held the whip hand over the Capitol. The pressure of public opinion was as strong as ever in his favor. Party patronage had yet to be distributed in a big way. The swift tempo of the first few weeks was over with the passage of emergency legislation but the change in Congressional pace did not signify a change in spirit. Most observers were agreed that the President could get anything he wanted throughout...
...internecine, the lions ganging together to maul a lone tiger. Beatty has lost 16 tigers this way, one lion. Except during the filming of The Big Cage when Lloyd's covered both him and his animals, Beatty has never paid a cent for life insurance. With a whip, a kitchen chair, a revolver loaded with blanks, he persuades his refractory felines to sit on pedestals, cower, roll over. With fangy reluctance they obey...
...membership to the White House for a heart-to-heart. He would consent to a few minor amendments but not to any tampering of the bill's fundamentals. He pointed to the calendar. He harped on the necessity for speedy action. He came closer to cracking the Party whip than at any time since he entered the White House. The Senators trudged glumly back to the Capitol and three days later reported the bill to the Senate. Typical of the opposition there awaiting it was Senator Reed's: "It'll be ripped to pieces...
...sitting in special session, to open them. To help prepare this measure Secretary Woodin spent long night hours at the White House with Congressional leaders. Chief author of the bill was Virginia's tireless little Carter Glass. Next day Secretary Woodin busied himself about the Capitol helping to whip it into shape almost up until the hour it was handed to the House...