Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Syracuse, on the other hand, labored frantically to whip up a crowd of rookies, including a completely green line...
...France after William T. Tilden II had lost to Rene Lacoste 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Out ran William Johnston, famed Davis Cup defender, only hope of the U. S. team. He would show that U. S. stamina could whip French flabbiness...
Topsy and Eva. Herein the Duncan Sisters are seen but not heard. The roguish one (Rosetta) plays Topsy, who flees all over snow-bound Kentucky chased by ogrish Simon Legree with his snapping whip. Vivian, the beautiful one, plays Little Eva, who flaps her white eyelids to see such sport. It appears to be a vehicle for Rosetta's clowning and as such compares unfavorably with her similar performances in vaudeville...
Roman punishments: "The Romans have a unique way of punishing some of their criminals. They tie them down on their back in the sun and then cover the victim's face with a thick layer of molasses for the flies to feast upon. . . . They whip [matricides] in public, and then they sew them up in a bull's hide together with a dog, a cock and a monkey, and throw them into the Tiber...
...Butler is a gentle, observing, whimsical soul who has taken to literature for the same reason people take to playing the base viol. In creating, and he sometimes does, the atmosphere of trot fishing, poker playing, whimsy, he amuses. But the amusement has the solidity and permanence of prune whip. Also one always realizes that prunes are the basic element in the concoction...