Word: whips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heading into the Panama Canal one morning last week, the skipper of the 7,517-ton American-Hawaiian line freighter Nevadan got word that his ship was due for a little ceremony. There was just time for deckhands to whip on their shirts. Off the Balboa docks, the Nevadan took aboard a launchful of officials headed by Canal Zone Acting Governor Herbert D. Vogel. After climbing over a deck cargo of lumber to get to the captain's cabin, the governor turned over a certificate stating that the Nevadan was the 150,000th major ship (more than...
...ostrich feather business has one thing in common with the buggy-whip industry and the horse. All three were ruined by Henry Ford. When women began riding in open automobiles before World War I, they had to discard their majestic hats, crowned with glossy ostrich plumes. That spelled disaster for South Africa's ostrich farmers, who fed and plucked 1,000,000 ostriches every year. On the sun-baked Little Karoo plateau around Oudtshoorn, ostrich capital of the world, farmers killed their birds by the thousands, stripped the rich dark meat from the carcasses for stew. Flocks dwindled...
Leverett's undefeated softball team continued winning, rallying to whip Eliot, 12 to 9. Lowell Sachnoff, with three hits, and Squeak Leary, with a three-run homer paced the Bunnies...
Money was useful to Roosevelt who kept himself busy socially. In his senior year, he owned "a cart and horse, with whip, rug, etc." He used to drive to the suburb of Chestnut Hill where he met the girl he became engaged to in his senior year...
...really honest unless it is unremittingly conscience-stricken. When a poet such as Britain's Stephen Spender prefaces the story of his life with the statement: "I have tried to be as truthful as I can," readers can be pretty sure that the author is going to whip himself naked through the streets at the tail...