Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with crisp yachting cap tilted to starboard?waved his hand. Chatting with pressmen, he stroked his goatee?a preposterous tuft no bigger than a barnacle?responded wittily to their sallies, screwing up his eyes when the sun shone against his face?a very brown face, drawn taut with the whip of sea-salt. "What good is the Cup to America when you have nothing to put in it?" asked he. "I understand the only thing you have left to put in it would burn the bottom...
...parade before the race, the French four-year-old seemed lacklustre; there was a negligence under his sleek grace; and he needed a touch of the whip to bring him up to the barrier-a touch that made him sulky. Jockey Kummer, instead of Jockey Haynes, had the leg up and rode an adequate race except for that one rash touch. Away they went-a flash of silk, a huddle of bobbing heads at the turn, one, two, pulling away, animated toys all; then the stretch, the crowd ris- ing, a tatoo of hoofs-F. A. Burton's Wise...
...President; Jefferson, with his large affectation of the homespun, became a power in the land. By degrees Bale became concious that he, always a staunch Federalist, was owning loyalty to a party discredited. He affixed to his hat the black cockade of his ances tors, and broke his riding-whip over the head of any man who looked askance at it. There were times when, whatever he might fee doing, the memory of Lavinia, vagrant and unsummoned, would bring about him the sense of invisible flowers chilled under webs of cold dew, and a voice would weep and implore...
...think-yes, even said. It broke my heart. I am not a coward. . . . The second reason ... is to take Harry Wills to task-in the ring-for a published statement made by him after seeing me defeat Jess Willard [1923], in which he said . . . that he could have whipped both Willard and myself in the same ring. I resent that now as I resented it when I read it. I am here to prove to Wills that he is slightly mistaken as far as whipping me is concerned. ... I know I will surely whip him. ... It will be a matter...
...curtains, wire cutters, sack fillers, forks and spoons, burlap halters, holsters, mess kits, fur-covered knapsacks, canvas knapsacks, saber knots, trench lanterns, flamethrower nozzles, ornaments, sweat pads, tent pins, tent poles, a paper rein, ropes, saddles, saws, shovels, spurs, straps, stirrups, sur-cingles, paper tape, torches, traces, a paper whip, wagons, carts, other vehicles, empty shells...