Word: whips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reid went out on the street and solicited advertising for two months be fore assuming an office in the Tribune. She then took charge as advertising director, knowing how to whip her staff into a lather of energy they never suspected in themselves. In 1924 the Tribune absorbed James Gordon Bennett's Herald, which the late unlamented Frank A. Munsey had run into the ground, and Mrs. Reid acquired new responsibilities. At 52 she is still advertising director, firing her sales force with 9 a. m. pep talks every Monday and keeping them stoked through Saturday noon. Though...
Starting early to whip some unusually fine material into shape, Coach Fred Mitchell is beginning informal fall baseball practice tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The main purpose of the practice sessions this autumn is to give Mitch a chance to look over some of the men who were either on the Freshman team or were ineligible last season and hence haven't worked before under Fred's eagle eyes...
...team despite his 17 years. Weight, it might be added, is at a premium right now on Soldiers Field. Adam Walsh, new line coach this fall, may reach down into his years of experience at Notre Dame and Yale and find an inspiration that will help to whip together a fighting, charging line, but trainer Eddie Farrell and Doe Therndike will have rather a tough time building on enough beef to give the Varsity at even break on the scales with Holy Cross and Brown, to mention two places that possess impressive heavyweights...
Said the Detroit Tigers' strapping Pitcher Lynwood ("Schoolboy") Rowe: "Hello, Maw!" Said Mrs. Ruby Rowe McGlothin: "If you ever call me 'Maw' again, I'll whip you sure...
Coach Gallagher enters on his second year of coaching this season and faces the task of every Freshman coach of trying to whip into shape a conglomerate group of youngsters most of whom he has never seen in action. When he took over the reins of the yearling squad last year, he introduced the intricate Notre Dame system in full force with its trick plays, intricate spinners, delayed spinners and what not, with the result that the first few games went to the opponents. But when the steam roller started to move, the slaughter was ghastly. Darmouth was the first...