Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Life's Centre Spread: A rooftop. Smoke from the chimneys. Two chil- dren, their clothes blown by the wind, gazing upward. Riding across the sky Santa Claus, cracking his whip over reindeer. Caption: "I Wonder If It's Another Non-Stop Flight...
Judge's Centre Spread: A ship's deck. Smoke from the funnels. Several passengers, their clothes blown by the wind, gazing upward. Riding across the sky Santa Claus, cracking his whip over reindeer. Caption: "Another Transatlantic Flight...
Before the scholastic wanderer first saw the light, few in Cambridge aside from those in University Hall had any idea of the scope and compass of the University; which, as has been said before of the extra-curricular activities, has a whip for every man's hobby. There are few who have not at least one such hobby-even if it be nothing more than a small spark struck by some chance reading; there are fewer still who cannot find among the courses given here some encouragement in the pursuit. To aid in the pursuit has been...
...doubt that this earwig had attached itself to sincere Senator Curtis. Furthermore, obscure though he may seem to the voting public, Senator Curtis is prehaps more familiar to and with all sections and factions of the Republican Party than any other man. For many a year-as Senate whip and Senate floorleader* he has been the Republican Party's attentive, indefatigable housekeeper. Many a widower, despairing of remarrying brilliantly, has married his housekeeper...
...this way Petruchio, Katharine, Grumio, Hortensio, and the rest become more human than ever. Mr. Leiber as Petruchio is perfect. He carries the necessary bragadaccio to just the proper point, and as he strides about horse-whip in hand inflicting his will upon Katharine one can well believe in his ultimate triumph. Virginia Bronson's Katharine is quite on a par with Petruchio, and rages about quite as she is expected to. In all truthfulness must be said that it is as the violent Kate and not as the tamed Shrew that Miss Bronson is at her very best: Acts...