Word: threw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...introduced to the Barrie Grammar School and there threw a cricket ball 115 yards-"a throw never beaten, at least by an amateur...
...Brooklyn, one Christine Garcia, 6-ft.-2-in., 200-lb. Porto Rican, got home from work, took umbrage at the music his sister was playing on the phonograph, tossed the phonograph out of the window, barked his shins on a table, threw the table after the phonograph, went from room to room performing feats. His sister ran for a policeman. Mr. Garcia knocked down the peaked bluecoat. Came another. Mr. Garcia bit him; he hit Mr. Garcia with a blackjack; Mr. Garcia dived from the window into the clutches of two more officers who lugged him, roaring, off to jail...
...Maurice Despret, a banking genius of Belgium and President of the Congress, threw the first bomb into the proceedings by attacking, not the justice of the Experts' (Dawes) Plan, but its feasibility. Grave doubt exists in the minds of many ex-Allied economists on this point and still graver doubts are entertained by many Germans. But that anybody should have publicly thrown a wet blanket over the Plan was a possibility too disconcerting for thought. Yet, it happened. Allied countries were horror-stricken. Germans jubilated...
Shanghai. The foreign boycott, which has lasted some weeks, broke down, shops opened. Violence did not end. The Japanese Consul was beaten by an infuriated mob. Several students threw sulphuric acid into a passing street car causing injuries to the occupants ; a Chinese woman had to be carted to a hospital. Strikers remained out and shipping continued to be tied...
Rotarians were hit with snowballs. Rotarians threw snowballs. The snow came in box cars from the virgin peaks of Colorado; bathing beauties, cops, were pelted in the streets of Cleveland, warm with July sunlight; the Rotarians loosed their inhibitions by throwing it around. More inhibitions were launched in a song...