Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Juan Bautista Saavedra, President by title and dictator by power, snapped the whip. Part of the Bolivian Congress howled, but his bidding was done. A bill was passed annulling the election of Jose Gabino Villanueva and Abdon Saavedra (brother of the President-Dictator) as President and Vice President respectively...
Upon attaining his majority he inherited $10,000,000 from his father. He settled himself to the task of administering his fortune, and of developing by practice his proficiency in the several sports for which he had a natural aptitude. A capable polo player, a skilfull whip, a dashing motorist, he was also adept at cards...
...Zorro. Master, this time, of the Australian stock whip, with which he flicks the ash from a cigaret, disarms a swordsman, climbs a balcony, tears a marriage license in two, Douglas Fairbanks is himself again. Fascinating, agile Spanish hero, Don Cesar clears himself of the charge of murdering an Archduke, wins the lovely Dolores de Muro (Mary Astor), plays the double part of father and son in a battle against 15. The picture is photographically perfect, splendidly cast, full of thrills...
...First furlong. Backbone, already dizzy, had slipped back. The mile. Prince de Bourbon was lengths in front. The obliging gentlemen loosed their striped collars with trembling forefingers. But ho!-American Flag, in second place, was behaving queerly. Jockey Johnson, on his back, did not lift his hands, raise his whip. But American Flag bounded past Prince de Bourbon as if the latter were shod with billets. To his owner, Samuel D. Riddle, went the stakes, and a great silver basket donated by the late Major August Belmont. The obliging gentlemen thoughtfully relit their masticated, short cigars. They had, as usual...
...morning to visit his son's grave. Reporter George Kellogg, writing about him for Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture, describes how Dr. Harding returns from that walk "breathing through his nostrils, his color high, his eyes snapping, shoulders back, chin in, step like the crack of a whip." He relates how he still practises medicine with offices in the antique building that houses the Marion Star, where "the old gentleman, either sitting straight as an arrow at his desk when he fancies the posture, or sprawling down in a deep chair when he feels that way about...