Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...48th state, Delaware, the wife-beater is taken to the jail or workhouse yard, is stripped to the waist in public view, is tied to a post, is lashed with a tough-thonged whip once, twice?30 stinging times. He goes home, beats no more, is no more beaten. For wife-beaters, the whipping-post is the unbeatable punishment...
...another year, the sheriff, his deputy or a constable will continue to whip in Sussex and Kent Counties ; the Board of Trustees of the Workhouse in New Castle County, through their "keepers, officers, agents and servants," will whip on. They will continue on this schedule...
...Nearing. "A former New York bank director is at the head of the Union. Loans made by the United States nullify all the advantages, real or imaginary, gained for any nation by membership. Almost all South American countries have had American loans forced upon them. New York cracks the whip and they jump...
Historically, of course, Britain has been the leading creditor nation of the world, and the Bank of England rate has been accustomed to leading rather than following. For the time being, however, this former situation has been exactly reversed; and when the Wall Street money merchants snap the whip, Lombard Street must jump. Britons have the same unquestioning faith in the Bank of England as in the monarchial form of government; and to financiers of the older school this episode of London's setting her money rates by those of the U. S. centre is indeed humiliating. Many indignant...
...these petty states as much as possible. A union of Austria and Germany would certainly strengthen the former and possibly the latter; and French policy demands the weakening of both. Inasmuch as a single vote in the Council of the League can block this project, France holds the whip hand...