Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flashed on bulletin boards in front of the newspapers La Prensa and La Critica. Afterward, ecstatic, they sang, cheered, paraded the streets until midnight. One man who did not parade: a pudgy auto salesman named Luis Angel Firpo, onetime "wild bull of the Pampas," who has boasted he could whip Campolo with one hand. In Campolo's little hometown, Quilmes, the populace surrounded his home, wildly cheered his aged parents...
Jogging home in his high wheeled wooden cart, a Jugoslavian farmer boy looked out last week across a field of maize and thought he saw two peasant women tussling in the twilight. "Don't touch me, Milica!" screamed one. Cracking his whip and clucking to his nag, the farmer boy jogged on. Reaching home he mentioned with a shrug the trivial incident...
...Milk Fund fighters are both foreigners. To become Champion, the winner would probably have to whip Sharkey, who "won" at Miami, and perhaps Dempsey, who has never formally "retired" since losing to Tunney. But one of these two foreigners is called Champion of Europe. And the other one looks and fights more like the Dempsey of old than any one since that Dempsey...
...cleavage on this vote proved two things; 1) The Hoover 1928 victory in four Southern States carried no weight in the Senate where Democrats (with two exceptions) joined solidly against him and for the Debenture Plan; 2) The nine-year coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans still held a whip hand over major legislation, despite the G. O. P.'s paper majority of 17 votes...
...Svacha takes off bridal veil and replaces it with kika (headdress of married woman). Father of bride gives away his daughter. Mother of bride leads her daughter to groom's parents. Father of bride strikes bride with whip (ancient ritual, symbol of submission) and then passes whip to groom. Girls and bride dance to ancient folk-song-the whole company becomes increasingly intoxicated. All dance a ronde and sing, while a man and his wife from among the guests enter the bed to warm it with the heat of their bodies. Drushka and Svacha bring dishes of food...