Word: whips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, a masked, kid-gloved gunman broke into the apartment of Orlando and Helen James, newlyweds, bound & gagged the groom, turned up the radio, beat the bride with a lead-studded whip, raped her three times, munched candy, departed chuckling...
CHANCE HAS A WHIP-Raymond Hoiden-Scribner ($2.50). In a literary scene dominated by tales of the barbarism of war and the hopelessness of peace a novel of oldfashioned, happy, romantic love stands out as conspicuously as a shy and innocent girl surrounded by disillusioned dames who have lost more than their youth. As a result Raymond Holden's Chance Has A Whip emerges as particularly refreshing, with at least one extended section that is calculated to remain long in readers' memories. The grand passion in Hendrick Fillmore's life is his love for beautiful, dark-eyed...
High point of Chance Has A Whip, describing the delicate relationship of father, mistress and daughter, has a muffled, tragic quality that recalls the best writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The disapproving lady who has charge of Margot frowns upon her intimacy with Leda and her father. When Hendrick, apologizing for the trouble his daughter causes his mistress, casually remarks that she is not a very attractive child, Margot overhears him. When, to make up for that cruelty, they become more attentive and tender with her, their days are darkened by a terrible conviction that she has surprised them together...
...most important and pleasant change is that from now on the lectures in Freshman Hygiene will be purely optional. This come and get it" attitude will indeed prove a less potent drawing -card than the whip of Simon Legree, but the fact that those who attend the course will be students with a genuine interest in the subject more than compensates for the diminishing returns...
...working type of practice he demanded. His motto seemed to be "Hurry up", and there was never any doubt as to his attitude towards loafing. A continuance of this policy this fall will make Varsity football practice no bed of roses, but it is the only possible way to whip the available material into shape for the string of hard games that follows he Springfield opener...