Word: threw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Medical Society, a large box was presented to the guest of honor, after a long speech celebrating his accomplishments. Urged by his distinguished colleagues to open the box, Dr. Hill removed the lid, took out a pair of carpet slippers. For a moment he was shocked, then he threw back his head and laughed: "Only Tom Cullen would have done this...
...diminishing group of friends in the outside world was more or less willing to accept. Last week the treaty-breaking, lie-telling German Dictator had few friends left anywhere outside his and Italy's borders and along with the last shreds of his nation's honor he threw away all pretense of being anything but a Conqueror. Instead of trying to think up further fancy excuses for aggression, in Berlin it was simply stated that "the eternal yesterdayers who always limp behind events [are] therefore . . . constantly surprised by them...
...last week Professor Charles Fremont McKhann of Harvard threw figures to the winds, joyfully proclaimed to the Dallas Southern Clinical Society: "People just won't die from pneumonia any more...
...little German girl mocked children of an Episcopalian minister at their prayers, threw the Bible on the floor and danced around it. Reproached, she said: "I thought this was a democracy and I could do whatever I liked...
...Flemings, however, far from being satisfied, are still irked by several important Walloon "islands"' within Flemish territory. Last year a gang of Flemish patriots invaded one island-Enghien-and started to paint out French signs. They were driven off by Walloons who threw pails of water at them. Most notable island, however, is Brussels, the capital, once a Flemish city but now French. The Flemings now threaten to "retake" Brussels and flamandize...