Word: threw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front porch of his home, which he owns, when "De Law" accosted him, asked him where he worked. Anderson replied that he did not work, but lived on $10 a week he received as compensation for his injured arm. Peacher, he said, carted him off in his automobile, threw him into jail with other Negroes he picked up on the way. During their stay in jail they were given no food, Anderson said, were told by Peacher to "sharpen your teeth and gnaw those bars" when they asked for some. After two days in jail Anderson and twelve black companions...
...Wilson's touchdown and Humphrey's conversion, he was deprived of one good chance to practice it when Yale's ace passer, Clint Frank, dropping back to throw, was tackled on Harvard's 35-yd. line. On the next play, Frank dropped back again and threw a long pass. Kelley raced down the field but caused the Yale stands to give an incredulous groan by just missing the ball. On third down, Frank passed again, this time from Harvard's 48-yd. line. Sprinting down the field, Kelley turned his head...
...scene at Philip's second-marriage feast when Attalus, the father of the bride, betrayed the general hostility to Olympias and Epirus by saying "he hoped there would be a child by the marriage to give them a truly Macedonian heir." Whereupon young Alexander rose and threw his cup of wine at Attalus . . . "What then am I?" Philip stood up and drew his sword, but stumbled and fell. And fiery Alexander...
...their estimate of the "virtuoso system" which rewards performers for their fine airs or interesting eccentricities, pays scant attention to their musicianship. Last spring bright, aggressive Ira Arthur Hirschmann, vice president of New York's smart Saks Fifth Avenue department store, snapped: "It's about time somebody threw the circuses out of the concert halls...
...science during intervening years in order to continue school. In 1883 he received a law degree from Valparaiso University, but had to teach another year to pass law library. He was one of the senators to vote against America's entry in the war. Republican in name only he threw aside partisanship years ago, supported Al Smith and Roosevelt, thrust his seamed face and jutting jaw and untrammeled thinking into making a fight like that over the purchase of Muscle School. "My College," he says, "had been the farm." As if to prove it, he still drives a plow through...