Word: whips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perspiring head gleamed hatless in the sun. Snapping to attention, the Special Guard saluted His Excellency Julius Streicher. Governor of Franconia, Big Boss of Old Nurnberg and idol of all Germans who hate Jews. In his heavy right fist Herr Streicher gripped his personal trademark, the riding whip he always carries and is reputed to use on Nurnberg prisoners...
Promoter Jack Curley. Aided by two enormous paws, a neck thicker than his head and a strange grip which he called the "Irish whip." Danno O'Mahoney promptly won 49 bouts in a row. For his 50th. he received the reward of a match with Jim Londos, principal claimant to the World's Heavyweight Championship...
...Burly, bone-crunching Danno O'Mahoney: a wrestling bout with Ben Tenario ("Chief Little Wolf") ; in 28 min. 28 sec.; in Manhattan. Champion O'Mahoney rocked the Navajo Indian in a cradle roll, hurled him to the mat with an Irish whip, polished off the bout with a boa-constrictor body hold...
...fall would be the winner. After one hour, 15 min. and 16 sec. of groveling, grunting, groaning and grimacing, Londos applied the "flying mare" with which he usually ends his bouts. Instead of tottering into a collapse, Danno O'Mahoney retaliated with his own specialty, the "Irish Whip," and a flying mare of his own; banged Londos on the canvas so hard that after the bout doctors found him suffering from two broken ribs, a broken bone in his forearm, torn ligaments and a minor dislocation...
...mind until June that he wanted the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill, the Guffey Coal Bill passed as part of his program. Last week Congress was growing tired, yearning for the finish line, when the President, at last knowing his own mind, began to ride harder, to put the whip to Congressional flanks...