Word: whips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ricain lashed into the Deputies a proposal to hold three sessions every week day until the budget is voted. If they must talk, let it be morning, noon and night, until the bitter end. With much grumbling they assented. Then Tardieu did a double-snapper with his whip-demanded that they sit thrice a day on Sunday too. Rebellion loomed, but Ringmaster Tardieu fired a figurative blank cartridge, demanded a vote of confidence. After less than a month in Power he has the Deputies so thoroughly cowed that they licked his hand...
...When I took my first bicycle tour in Germany, I noticed that the German wheelmen carried a whip in a receptacle attached to the handlebars. Upon inquiry, it was for dogs. I carried no whip, for l found a more excellent way. When chased by infuriated dogs, which happened three or four times every day, I waited till the monster got close. Then leaning over. I spit in his eye, becoming with practice uncannily accurate. The animal invariably retired. It wasn't the heat, it was the humidity...
...Potter Cotton, onetime Manhattan lawyer. Out of these State-Navy conferences last week came this story: Undersecretary Cotton, impatient with the Navy's attitude on cruiser design and gun effectiveness, remarked across the council table: "If I could not design a cruiser with six-inch guns that could whip a cruiser with eight-inch guns, I'd go and jump out of the window." Bang went the fist of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams upon the council table. "Then go jump now!" he barked...
...pledging Germany to new reparations payments." Impartial observers concede Hugenberg followers the necessary 4,000,000 votes to bring this law before the Reichstag. It is also probable that the Reichstag would reject it. All branches of the powerful Hugenberg press organization were working last week to whip up the 20,000.000 votes necessary to pass the "Liberty Law" over the Reichstag's rejection. Manifesto. Opponents of the "Liberty Law" were not silent last week. While Hugenberg followers paraded and shouted hoarsely on street corners, both the German Reich and the Prussian State Government issued warnings that any official...
With colleagues representing the great central banks of Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, brisk Mr. Reynolds was trying to whip into shape a charter for the new Bank for International Settlements (TIME, Sept. 23) which under the Young Plan will handle German Reparations payments, issue Reparations Bonds. The Chairman's attitude: "We will go on until we have finished. This is a woodcutting job. There is going to be nothing spectacular about it and very little news...