Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Eden's successor in the portfolio for war, Churchill chose Parliament's famed Tory Chief Whip, Captain David Margesson...
...secretary to the Minister of Railroads in Queensland, fought in World War I until he was invalided out after Gallipoli, in 1919 served on a committee to investigate "The Effects of Intoxicating Liquors on Australian Soldiers." For three years (1926-29) he was the Government's Senate whip, last October was made Minister of Interior. None of these things made him a famous Australian. When the Information Ministry sent out a bulletin announcing the Menzies Cabinet in October, Senator Foil's name was given as Henry (instead of Hattil...
...want to know how to explain that perfumed letter to your mother-in-law, you can learn from "Too Much Johnson." It's not Saroyan but it's got more laughs than folks like Mrs. George S. Kaufmann can whip into a play, and that...
...years ago, when famed Maestro Arturo Toscanini held a whip hand over it, the spirited, self-willed New York Philharmonic-Symphony was probably the greatest orchestra in the world. Its master horn and oboe soloists, its violin virtuosi had matched egos with dozens of great conductors, were so finely trained that only the hot lashes of the little Maestro could hold them in line. When in 1936 Maestro Toscanini stepped down from the Philharmonic's podium,* the Philharmonic's board of directors were hard put to find a new conductor sufficiently tough to take his place. After some...
Because a sister of the parish hates to be caught unprepared by her preacher, on his pastoral rounds he would linger out front tying his horse (later testing his tires) until she had time to whip off her apron and straighten up the parlor. Because the Methodist Discipline forbade smoking, he passed out chocolate cigars when his son was born. But he knew how to call his shots. When a parishioner begged him to tell her daughter not to accept a job in Manhattan because something might happen to her there, Parson Spence looked her in the eye, said...