Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such oratorical omelets, composed of Southern corn, overblown poetical allusions, rough waggery and incoherent rambling have seldom been presented in the halls of Congress since the days when John Randolph of Roanoke used to stride into the House, whip in hand, followed by a Negro boy with a flagon of porter, to administer a tongue-lashing to Henry Clay...
...next press conference, Cordell Hull angrily detailed the deferment record, age and marital status of every career man whose picture Cissie had printed. All but four, he announced, are overseas, many in jobs of direct military assistance. No man under 26 in his department is draft-deferred. Publicly, the whip-tongued old Secretary called Cissie's tirade "violent and unfair, grossly unfair." His private comments were probably purple...
...stately House of Lords, peers of the realm huffed & puffed at the Government's bill to provide equal education for all. Ignoring the democracy of death in Normandy, crusty Lord Buckmaster said: "Take a boy in an elementary [public] school and whip him for something he has done and all too often he goes whining to his mother. . . . Take a boy in a public [private] school and flog him, perhaps for something he has not done, and one never hears a word about it." R. W. Sorensen, Labor Member of the House of Commons, announced that he would...
...source of Mott's success in spreading the Y around the world is twofold: 1) an indefatigable energy that has taken him 2,000,000 miles in 80 countries (he toured Latin America five times in one two-year period); 2) an organizing ability that enabled him to whip up other men's enthusiasm, made them give their time and money (he has raised $300,000,000 for his causes...
When the convention opened in the granite Senate chamber of the capitol at Austin last week, George Butler had the votes to crack the whip. Every speech, every motion the New Dealers made was drowned out in boos and catcalls. When handsome, New Dealing Representative Lyndon B. Johnson hovered near the platform to prompt pro-Roosevelt speakers, the Texans shouted, "Throw Roosevelt's pin-up boy out of there. Get that yes man off the platform...