Word: whips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whip that cracks loudest and most potently in Russia is the Communist Party newsorgan Pravda ("Truth"), in which Joseph Stalin's lightest whims and heaviest commands, usually unsigned, often appear first. Last week that prominent Old Bolshevik, the editor of the Soviet Government newsorgan Izvestia ("News"), famed Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin, expressed the editorial opinion that the Russian people were "a nation of Oblomovs" (i. e., lazy, good-for-nothing dreamers like Oblomov, principal character in the famed Goncharov novel) prior to their glorious awakening by the Revolution of 1917. Crack!-Pravda came out with an editorial flaying Old Bolshevik...
...While he spoke, word sped through the Capitol that Virginia's whip-tongued Carter Glass, third Wilson Secretary of the Treasury, would rise to answer him. When the frail, 78-year-old Virginian pulled himself to his feet, face pale and drawn, eyes flashing, the Senate galleries were packed and every seat on the Democratic side was filled...
This created a snarl which most Paris commentators considered impossible of disentanglement by Pierre Laval. It appeared that after years of spiteful and ill-tempered intrigue "Edouard II" Daladier had gained at least a temporary whip hand against "Edouard I" Herriot, and that when Premier Laval returns this week from Geneva, where he is wrestling with the octopus-like Ethiopian Question, he will face the most disastrous French political muddle of his long and dexterous career...
CHANCE HAS A WHIP-Raymond Holden-Scribner...
...Finally," concluded Professor Mather, "I wish to express my sympathy for Commissioner Smith. It must be as unpleasant for him to crack the whip as it is for us teachers to dance...