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At Mexico City a leading newspaper, Excelsior, reported the "Calles terror" as hysterically as it had flayed "Coolidge hypocrisy" the day before.

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In the latter city, he had flayed New Mexico's defamed and pining Albert Bacon Fall and New Mexico's brusque, new, young figure, Senator Bronson Murray Cutting.

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Methodists in other States had flayed their Ohio brethren for being swept off their feet.

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Only that morning Pilsudski had flayed the Witos Government in an interview printed by the Warsaw press.

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All my nerves felt raw now, as though the dream had flayed me.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros