Word: whips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death sentence passed on eight young blackamoors at Scottsboro for raping two white girls in a freight train (TIME, June 22). He denounced these sentences as "legal lynching," demanded that the black boys be retried by a black jury. Into such a frenzy of excitement and protest did he whip his audience that they were openly threatening the life of Governor Benjamin Meek Miller unless he released the condemned...
...Back home! Back home!" shouted Laborites loudly in the House of Com mons last week. They were jeering terrier-like Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, who rose from their ranks and strode defiantly across to the Opposition benches. Close behind him was the whip of his New Party, Dr. Robert Forgan...
...commander, General Stephen D. Lee, called a council of war, asked Forrest if he had any ideas. "Yes, sir," said Forrest. "I've always got ideas, and I'll tell you one thing, General Lee. If I knew as much about West Point tactics as you, the Yankees would whip hell out of me every...
Clara Bow changed her dyed hair from its celebrated red to pale yellow to avoid recognition, dressed herself in jodhpurs, a silk polo shirt, a whip equipped with powder case. At Friend Bell's ranch she said: "I wanted my contract broken if Paramount saw fit so that I might get back on my feet again. . . . It's like leaving home to leave the studio after all these years, but I know it is the best thing for me to do." She declared that after resting, she would become a free lance again, mentioned screen offers from Metro...
...royal right hand was a heavy whip. With the royal left His Majesty seized the priest by his beard, dragged him from the pulpit, flung him screaming on the flagstones. Lash after lash, lash after lash, lash after lash. . . . The priest at length ceased to scream, fainted, lay as though dead. To the faithful His Majesty then stated that Her Majesty never lifts her vail in public, thereupon strode from the mosque with clinking spurs while fellow priests revived the flogged zealot...