Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eric Gill's War memorial for Leeds University, England, recently unveiled by the Bishop of Ripon, has aroused as much comment for being " off the subject" as Sir William Orpen's painting To the Unknown British Soldier. Gill's work represents Christ with a seven-thonged whip, driving before him a woman with a vanity case, a man with a pawnbroker's emblem, men in top hats and frock coats. The sculptor explained: " We still have money-changers in England...
...Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Wilson, Chief Conservative whip and Parliamentary Secretary of the Treasury, resigned these positions on appointment to the Governorship of Bombay in succession to Sir G. A. Lloyd. Commander Eyres-Monsell succeeds Colonel Wilson as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury. Major Archibald Boyd Carpenter succeeds Commander Eyres-Monsell as Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty...
Senator Pat Harrison, of the virulent tongue, able Democratic whip from Mississippi, is getting $100 a speech on the Chautauqua circuit. His opponents comment: " At last he has found a market for his wares...
SEVENTH HEAVEN-A long snake-whip and a rendering of La Marseillaise off-stage are the emotional assistants to Helen Menken in a skillfully concocted assembly of Parisian eccentrics...
SEVENTH HEAVEN?Up among the Paris chimney pots, Helen Menken suffers to the breaking point the verbal and physical abuse of a shrewish sister. Later she plays the Marseillaise on sister's anatomy with a long black whip and almost everyone but sister is sittin' pretty at the finale...