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Word: whips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Your address before the Convention of the Episcopal Diocese was unsatisfactorily quoted in the Transcript. The reader cannot be clear what your meaning was. The first impression is that you were endeavoring to whip up public opinion in this country to lend an active hand to England in her fight. The Harvard Crimson in an editorial today has evidently so interpreted your words. More careful reading and more especially my esteem for you make me question the validity of this interpretation. Surely the Church does not wish to send our young men out to kill? That they should risk their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 4/13/1940 | See Source »

That famed sarong happens not to appear here, but Lamour's glamour neither gains nor loses. Nothing else is missing. The "South Sea" accent remembered about half the time, the scene with the villainous dancing partner and his bull-whip, the application to the great yellow moon sung heath the weeping willow tree--all are in the familiar pattern. The artificial eyelashes flutter and Miss Lamour reestablishes her position as a close second to the Lampoon's Sheridan in Hollywood's March of Crime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Heading northward, the Crimson nine will stop in at New York to open the E.I.L. campaign with Columbia on Saturday, April 6. The squad has been working in the Cage for over six weeks now and Stahl has started to whip a good playing unit into shape. There has been plenty of opportunity for batting and infield drills, but the outfielders will have to wait until they got outside for any real work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stahl's Varsity Nine Shaping Up for Spring Vacation Tour Through South | 3/23/1940 | See Source »

...Down the long stretch, silhouetted against the purple Sierra Madres, the Biscuit seemed glued to Whichcee's tail. Louder & louder the crowd roared as they seesawed coming into the homestretch-Seabiscuit nosing in front, then falling back, then in front again. Approaching the grandstands, Red Pollard flipped his whip and the Biscuit, in as dramatic a finish as has ever been seen, streaked down the stretch to immortality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Four Hundred Grand | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...manhunters gawp in her yard while the "raped" girl, dizzy with nympholepsy, shows off her breasts. Most of them know she is a slut, some of them doubt she was ever raped; but this is a nigger hunt. Later they break into Negro cabins, strip a Negro couple, whip the husband, turpentine his wife's belly, rape a mulatto girl. Before they get Sonny they drag Sam behind a car. After they have killed Sonny the girl confesses his innocence. They stone her to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lynching Comedy | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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