Word: threw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something which even they resolved to suppress. Cubans lounging in sidewalk cafes had scarcely noticed that some of their U. S. visitors were reading an Esquire article entitled "Latins Are Lousy Lovers" when the Government swooped clown, confiscated all current newsstand copies of this masculine equivalent of Vogue and threw into jail luckless Marcial Perez, a partner in the firm which sells Esquire in Cuba...
Franklin Roosevelt threw up his hands, widened his eyes in mock horror. "Oh, no!" cried...
...break up for scrap. The Admiralty offered a handsome sum to buy the Majestic, seeking to turn her into a training ship. Ward & Co. were not unwilling to sell but pointed out that to fill other contracts they were in immediate need of metal. At this the Admiralty threw in two old British submarines suitable for scrap in part payment for the German-built Majestic, once "The World's Largest And Fastest Liner...
...three or four times a year a young woman living in Ohio threw fits. This went on for ten years. Finally she felt paralysis creeping upon her, suffered from headache, vomiting, blurred vision. Examination disclosed that she had neuritis in both eyes as the result of some pressure on the brain. With eyes closed she could not tell where her left hand was, or her left foot. On the left side she was insensitive to pain, heat, vibration. These left-hand symptoms indicated trouble on the right side of the brain, since the control lines are laterally crossed. Diagnosis: brain...
...popular impression-a period of marching mobs, of rebellions more brazen than that of Shays, of backstairs gossip and back room intrigues, of whispering campaigns and political assassinations." Last week Historian Bowers, whose current avocation is being U. S. Ambassador to Spain, offered a biography of Jefferson that threw little new light on the great Democrat, but much on the intrigues, incipient rebellions, factional fights that surrounded him. Subtitled The Death Struggle of the Federalists, most of the book's 538 pages detail the decline of the brilliant party that, disregarding the warnings of Hamilton, went...