Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five games scheduled for the-University nine during the past week were cancelled, and in the three engagements played the pitchers held the limelight and the whip hand. The three opponents of the Crimson were shut out in games of scant hitting on both sides...
This ghostliness is what, if anything, marks Poet Robinson's limitation. He has written exquisitely of high romance. His lines, flexibly austere, trace out the action sharply and whip passion to its perfect pitch. But then, often, the simple words are tortured and strained deviously to sustain ecstasy, in bodiless comparative discussions of ecstasy itself. Then the lines ache like tendons not strong enough to keep a soaring hawk aloft, needing a gust of action, a wingbeat of refreshed emotion to lift the poem again...
While the Forum letter went the way of all inappropriate literature at the White House, James Francis Burke of Pittsburgh, onetime Republican whip in the U. S. House of Representatives, wrote such reply as seemed necessary, saying, among other things: "[The American people] have been seeking and are entitled to at least a few months' relief now and then from meddlers, mischief makers and apostles of unrest who have become the bane of our modern American existence...
Petruchio made up as a cowboy, with leather chaps and cerise shift, sporting a long cattle whip, starts his tactics of taming the shrewish Katherina, by twining the whip about the shoulders of the screaming flapper, as he sings...
...exceptionally strong team this spring. At the first meeting, to be held at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, Coach E. L. Farrell, Captain E. C. Haggerty '27, and Manager S. E. Gleason, Jr., '27, will speak to the candidates. Coach Farrell will have four weeks in which to whip his team into shape before the first meet with M. I. T. on April...