Search Details

Word: flogging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...villain threatens to flog the half-naked heroine. . . . The beautiful girl is beaten to death on a sacrificial altar. . The men are stabbed and have their arms, legs and heads cut off. . . . The bride is kidnaped. . . . Fists that smash against faces settle all problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Puddles of Blood | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...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 ask the Minister of Health "if he is aware that in plans of postwar housing no provision appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Each Man to 'is Post | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...splitting up badly, to his sorrow; but he has his crafty reasons to feel that he has protectors among the Nazis, and in all their conflicting camps. At length, of course, he is framed, robbed, imprisoned. He and other Jews are stuffed with strong purgatives, stripped, and forced to flog each other's buttocks. Johannes Robin is a symbol of that international class myopia which bankrolled Naziism-a bland, would-be-guileful sower of "dragon's teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cyclorama: Third Panel | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next