Word: threw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thoroughly annoyed, Carol threw his companion's mink coat over his arm, seized her bouquet of roses, and requested her, in Roumanian, to leave the wagon-lit by a door at the opposite end from that whence he descended. The cameramen, torn between the two good shots thus offered, exploded their flashlights frantically, cursed vociferously, literally stalked their photographic game...
Helen Wills threw up her hand in a staccato gesture of despair for Tolley's crumbling intellect, his blindness. "Out, out," shouted the spectators, confident that they could see better than Mr. Tolley, whose stool was a yard from the baseline. Possibly the ball was out; possibly the decision kept Miss Wills from winning the greatest match of her life. No one will ever know. Suzanne Lenglen, against whom some equally dubious decision had been called in the first set, ran out the set 8-6, and a moment later was borne from the court on the shoulders...
Amid pandemonium, the Fascists threw their own hats, and all the hats they could snatch, into the air. Mistaking a streetcar employe with a red "danger" flag for a Communist, they drubbed him soundly. Premier Poullet "turned pale," escaped discreetly through the back door of the Museum, leaving Crown Prince Leopold to receive the Fascists' cheers...
...while I pressed my lips tight shut, like President Coolidge. Her drives and placements came my way every time. I tried to drive her back with lobs, but both she and the Baron slaughtered one after another. He hit so hard he bent his racket. ... At the end, Suzanne threw the balls into the stands, rushed to the net with that fixed smile of hers and gave me a handshake, a clammy one. . . . C. F. was great! He tried to take all the blame...
Finally, as dinner time approached, the expensive part of the entertainment was revealed. The Lord Chamberlain threw open the doors of the Frederick the Great Salon. Wilhelm strode proudly in; deigned to express by a gesture that the room had just been "newly furnished with beautiful bronzes, together with brocaded hangings" and many another embellishment imported from Germany...