Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when they come to school. It isn't the gum-it is what the gum-chewing signifies. Gum-chewing in school is like a kid studying in an easy chair alongside the radio. . . . And cigarets. It is pitiful to go to some schools and see the children whip out packs of cigarets as they leave the building...
...coated boss (a police dog mounts guard at his side), shake his hand, then pass on to the cigars and the punch bowl. Watching the show, his cousin, the late Captain Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News, once drily observed: "Bertie certainly likes to crack the whip and watch the serfs march...
...extra speed out of a horse by breaking fast from the post and being a master horse-handler all the way to the finish line. Unlike U.S. jockeys, who perch crablike on a horse's withers. Richards sits his horse with longer stirrups. When he uses the whip, which is seldom, he lays it on the horse near the shoulder, as English riders do. Last week, at 43, he won his 3,261st race, and that made him officially the world's alltime champion jockey. But something was missing. He had never won England's biggest race...
Spare the Whip. Richards knew his highstrung mount, and, because he did, the Minstrel had never felt his whip, and never would. Says Tudor Minstrel's head stable man: "If you whipped him it would make him nervous. It would be like whipping a good dog; he would wonder why you did it." The last time he raced, in the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket a month ago, he pulled away from 14 other prize three-year-olds and won by eight lengths, only a fifth of a second off the mile record (1:37⅓) that has stood...
Honeymoon has its entertaining moments, but something goes wrong with the farcical frenzy the leading players are supposed to whip up. The character Miss Temple plays is presented as if she were just too terribly cute, whereas she is actually playing a spoiled brat who has yet to learn that the world is not her oyster. Mr. Madison, pouting perpetually, matches her for infantilism and bad manners, point for point; and they talk a jive dialect in which one of the most intelligible words is "jeepers." Those who find such types attractive will get a lot of laughs. In spite...