Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tank at Engineer Armstrong's home are some model seadromes, and a model of the great S. S. Majestic. When he invited experts to hear him out last week, it was also to see him demonstrate his seadromes' seaworthiness, by switching on fans to whip the tank into a maelstrom that would sink the miniature Majestic while the floating islands tugged but mildly at their anchors...
...Preparatory Disarmament Commission* (TIME, May 24 et seq.) adjourned last week after approving the report of its Drafting Committee apportioning the work to be done by the various subcommittees (TIME. May 31) which will assemble and whip into shape the literally stupendous mass of data eventually to be acted upon by the Disarmament Conference. September was announced last week as the approximate time at which the Preparatory Commission will meet again to shepherd the activities of its various committees and subcommittees, whose preparatory labors are expected to continue for at least a year...
General Simon and Senor Olivan suggested that France and Spain now held the whip hand over the Riff, and that Abd-El-Krim, if he did not want to be wiped out, must disarm the Riffi, go into exile himself, exchange all prisoners, and, after renouncing his assumed title of Sultan, recognize "the true sultan of Morocco", whom the French and Spanish "guard" in vassalage to themselves...
...Liberal Whip David Lloyd George popped many a stinging comment in his coarsest and least happy vein. Labor Whip Ramsay Macdonald egged on J. H. Thomas, usually one of the calmest Laborites, to make no less than twelve disparaging orations. Meanwhile sleepy members formed quartets and sang the U. S. Civil War ditty "John Brown's Body" to keep awake. Recitations of "Pop Goes the Wease"? were loudly applauded in the lobbies, while one right honorable member chanted...
...Angeles, Trainer Louis Roth cracked his whip over a tigress making her circus debut, was flattened on the tanbark by a snarling catapult. Nimble, he regained his feet and with face, head, arms, shoulders spurting blood, lashed the cat into submission...