Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SEVENTH HEAVEN?Drama in a Paris garret, revolving about a modern Cinderella whose wicked big sister beats her. The worm turns and Helen Menken flagellates her evil relative with a blacksnake whip in a moment of thrilling melodrama...
...Evening Post. Upon further investigation the Messrs. Shubert have withdrawn these statements, as they found them to be unwarranted." Dignified-eh? Next fall old London will have a chance to see the cowboys 'n wild Indians. Captain Bertram Mills, owner of Olympia Circus there and a well-known whip, witnessed the first American rodeo of the year in Wichita, Kans., and was so impressed by the show possibilities of bulldogging, lariat-throwing, bucking bronchos, etc., that he intends to stage a real American rodeo at Olympia Circus in the autumn...
Hence this Jubilee has at least a saving unity. Had it been left to the races of New York it might have resulted an agitated kaleidoscope or a calliope gone wild. As it is, only a municipal circus with the Mayor taking several parts and cracking the ringmaster's whip...
When a sharp tongue takes to soft words, good nature prospers. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Democratic whip of the Senate, wrote an article which appeared in The New Orleans Item. He referred to Dr. Harding, the President's father (who recently visited a reunion of Confederate veterans) as the " human, bighearted, broadminded father of a distinguished and thoroughly human son." He also dilated upon the warm reception given by the President and Mrs. Harding to 200 Confederate Veterans whom he (Harrison) had taken to call at the White House. His remarks did not go unnoticed. President Harding wrote...
FLORIDA: A bill to forbid the use of the whip on convicts was passed by the legislature after a bitter fight. In the Senate the final vote...