Word: threw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Watch Glennon," said Coach Cleo O'Donnell Holy Cross mentor, on the eve of the annual struggle with the Crimson last year. This was no idle threat, for time and again the shifty Purple back threw fear into the Harvard adherents with his dazzling speed and uncanny ability to keep his feet. Only a superb defense at a crucial moment prevented a score last fall, and gave the Crimson the best of the 6-0 score...
...minutes before 2 p. m., Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Gillett, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns, C. Bascom Slemp, marched into the President's box at the ball park. The President smoked a cigar. Babe Ruth came to shake hands. The President threw out a ball and the game was on. Mrs. Coolidge kept a box score and yelled lustily; the President, not so lusty at first, perked up as the game went to an exciting finish. He was the first man to rise in the lucky seventh inning. When the score...
...progress of the protocol on arbitration, security and disarmament was marred by a series of disruptive, though abortive incidents. New Zealand, Yugoslavia, Italy and Japan threw monkey wrenches of varying sizes into the protocol machinery. Through the masterly tact of Dr. Eduard Benes, Foreign Minister of Czecho-Slovakia, the situation was in each case?except that of Japan?saved. The waves of excitement of the Italian furore, in which France and Britain took a hand, were stilled by an allusion of Dr. Benes to Euclid?that as Italy was in agreement with Britain and that France agreed with Britain...
...something more than action. The Republican State Convention in Kansas refused to repudiate the Ku Klux Klan. Mr. White says that the Republican candidate for Governor, Ben S. Paulen, and the Democratic candidate, Governor Jonathan M. Davis, both received the support of the Klan in the primaries. So he threw his pen on the floor and jumped onto a soap box?Independent candidate for Governor. He cried...
...president. In 1830 it undertook to nullify the tariff laws of the United States and was called to order sternly by Andrew Jackson. In 1860-61 it first seceded and then fired on Fort Sumpter and forced the rest of us into a hopeless civil war. In 1891 it threw out of the United States Senate Wade Hampton, the greatest soldier it ever has produced, and the man whose magnificent and daring leadership delivered it from the horrors and oppressions of reconstruction, replacing him with a very ordinary politician...