Word: threw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Behind us people were cheering, shouting for beer, waving banners. They all wore my daddy's bright blue badges. They honked horns, squawked squawkers, shot off torpedoes, threw confetti at us. When we reached the Union station, they put me on a train. In Springfield, Ill., I had another parade up to the state capitol. Then a man, who said he was chief clerk of the elections department, told me that I would probably be put on the ballot in November. Then I will be able to ask all the Illinois voters this question: "Should the Congress...
...Hamilton Fyfe, famed "most traveled editor," author of The Fruit of the Tree, threw up his job as editor of the Daily Herald of London last week, took passage for Australia, declared: "I'm going back to vagabondage...
...LaSalle Street station in Chicago, a beaming throng awaited him. They threw roses, asters, lilies, gladioli at him. One devotee heaved a garland of such flowers about his neck...
...work in the day at 32 centesimi the hour. I made 121 journeys with a handbarrow full of stones up to the second floor of a building in process of construction. In the evening the muscles of my arms were swollen. I ate some potatoes roasted upon cinders and threw myself in all my clothes on to my bed: a pile of straw. At five on the Tuesday I woke and returned to work. I chafed with the terrible rage of the powerless. The padrone made me mad. The third day he said to me: 'You are too well...
...Pioneer Instrument Co. Notable was the failure of the trimotored Ford all-metal entries to finish. Flying one of these, Pilot R. W. Schroeder had the misfortune to chip a propeller, resulting in terrific vibration in that motor. Over Nova, Ohio, the motor tore loose from its mounting, threw a piece of debris into another propeller, smashing it and leaving the plane with only one propeller to land by. It was an unforseeable accident, due not so much to mechanical deficiency as to ill luck. Aeronauts mourned that the most widely advertised of commercial ships should thus come to grief...