Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brass bell knobs on front doors, the window-boxes and plush curtains, all speak of a civic pride that clings anxiously to dwindling incunabula. It is not a matter of tradition, for most of the old families have moved to Manhattan. "Foreigners" and their blowsy women cook goulash and whip children in the houses where 40 years ago candles shone in crystal girandoles, and violins complained all night. A newspaper writer recently referred to Brooklyn as the "City of a Thousand Freaks," and many of the throwbacks who still live there are queer sticks indeed. You see them scurrying along...
...could not 'bear to be crossed or criticized. When he cracked the whip everybody must jump...
ARMS AND THE MAN-Bernard Shaw's whip at the heels of war most capably snapped by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne...
...ought not to be an easy task for a man of Mr. Dawes' tempera- ment. Already it is apparent what j things may be said of him. Sen- ator Pat Harrison, whip-tongued I keynoter and fire-eater from Mis- sissippi, has unleashed his vocal chords, calling "strikes" derisively against any Republican who may come to bat. Last week he gave his hounds of speech a preliminary run: "With Borah as its leader in foreign affairs, challenging the Administration's position with reference to the World Court, and Dawes, the Mussolini of American politics, threatening invasion and destruction...
Three. A Salvadorian resolution was adopted, under which the Council of the League will whip preliminaries into shape for an international conference to consider the private manufacture of arms, The co-operation of the U. S. will be asked "as soon as the United States Government considers that possible...