Word: threw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...skelps witt blad.' Lardner raised a thermal eyebrow. 'What of it?' he asked, and in Chicago two young Jewish psychopathics drew up to the curb in a Dodge, looking for someone to give a ride to. That night the Alabama delegation in the steaming reaches of Madison Square Garden threw twenty-five dogged votes for Oscar Underwood...
...policemen in turn had their grievances against Talker Flockhart. Frequently they had to carry him to the stationhouse. A diminutive man, he could not keep pace with them. In the station-house he would invariably transfix the officers with his strange eyes, and recite Scriptures to them. Often they threw him out of their presence; and that hurt those Scotsmen dreadfully. Manhandling the wight was like tearing a page from the Bible...
...commons and likewise a state of war between the steward for the time being and the students. In the good old days when the commons was on the ground floor of Massachusetts, and the pig stys were under the windows, if the students did not like the dinner, they threw it at the steward. Nevertheless, they hung together. In 1876 the board at Memorial Hall was about $3.90 a week, quite as good and of greater variety than the ordinary students' table nowadays...
Shrewd, these learned men did not put on their togas haphazard, but allowed themselves to be draped by an expert. He, deft, threw one end of the toga over their left shoulder, allowing the point to hang down in front. The major remainder of the toga was then wound about the body, toward the right, and finally disposed in graceful folds about the right arm. Soon, like so many Caesars, the good doctors strode forth, paraded through Mantua, and grouped majestically while a statue of Virgil, famed Mantuan* was unveiled...
...winners broke into the scoring column in the second frame when Barbee drew a pass and scored on Burns' hit to center field. Two more tallies, both unearned, were added to the Crimson total in the fifth. Donaghy walked and reached second when Trenchard threw wild after picking up Barbee's bunt. The bases were loaded when Wilson failed to cover first on Burns' bunt to Walker Jones, grounded to first, but Trenchard dropped the throw home, allowing Donaghy to score. Barbee crossed, the plate a minute later on Zarakov's sacrifice...