Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moses, trim and aggressive, occasion ally unleashed his lightning wit, or gave a neat whip cut across the flank of an attacking Democrat. Smoot, the Mormon elder, tall and slender as a mast, with a voice like a wind murmuring among the halyards, went unostentatiously about his business. Fess, coming forward in a halting defense of his brother Ohioan, Daugherty, met the biting attack of the active, relentless Norris. While from the farthest cor ner, Magnus Johnson, in broad Swedish accent, vouched for the distress of the farmers and threatened, if he were re-elected next Fall...
...last man to wear a swallow tail coat* in the Senate?? Omar D. Conger of Michigan, who went to the Senate in 1881, after several years as Republican whip in the House...
...According to Evelyn's testimony under oath, he summoned her from her bed into a great baronial hall, suddenly drew forth a heavy whip and then began furiously to lash her. He would, and did punish her because she had not come to him as a lily of the fields. Harry Thaw wanted everything and thought he had enough money to get everything-even decency...
...public disembarks. At the fourth floor they call "Daugherty," and the rest leave the car. Not only the public, but members from both branches of Congress have taken up the fad. One morning last week, when it was time for the Senate to open, Senator Curtis, Republican Whip, was the only member on the floor. Call bells were rung, and after some 15 minutes a quorum was gathered, but not until many Senators had torn themselves from the Investigation chambers...
Harold Knutson, Congressman from Minnesota, Republican whip in the last Congress: "I took an automobile ride with one Leroy M. Hull, an employee of the Department of Labor. Because I parked my car in the outskirts of Washington in a place where parking is forbidden by law, I was arrested by the Virginia Highway Police, was refused permission to telephone my aged mother and some of my colleagues, was obliged to spend 15 hours in a crowded cell, was compelled to furnish a bond of $5,000. Said I, on being released: 'I am the innocent victim of a terrible...