Word: woodshedding
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Kipling is the wicked uncle of the modern British mind -the one they don't talk about, the one who went broke going to the wars and who died intestate, without visitors, in a Home. But now the belated floral tributes of highbrow attention have begun to come in...
With Eaton on the spot, the community began to find out what had been going on behind the six-and-a-half-foot fence. A number of students testified that they had been given 20 to 30 stripes at a time. But the stories from the woodshed were quickly forgotten...
Then one day the dominie came calling to ask why Harry had not been in school for quite a while. When Harry could give no explanation, grandfather locked him in the woodshed for the night. As soon as the others were asleep, Davy climbed through the window and bravely set...
"It was in the summer of 1871, during the Prussian occupation. Five Prussian Uhlans were billeted in our house. One night the five went down to my father's wine cellar and got roaring drunk. I was sent to bed-I was only ten-but from my room I...
Ohio's solid, slow-moving Representative Clarence Brown did what some of his colleagues had been itching to do: he marched the Democrats' brash young Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. off to the woodshed. What got Brown's Republican dander up was Junior's charge that Brown...