Word: threw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Dr. Hakim Bakhtyar Rustomji Ratanji, who legally changed his name to Buck Ruxton, strangled his wife and the pretty nursemaid who saw him do it, subsequently dismembered his victims and threw the bloody fragments into a Scottish ravine known as The Devil's Beef tub (TIME, March 23), British Justice last week hanged this murderer in the courtyard of Strangeways Jail, Manchester...
...Ringstrasse. Word leaked out that Heimwehrmen, in civilian clothes, had been told off to break the parade up with rioting when it reached the Heldenplatz. Scrawny Chancellor von Schuschnigg promptly showed a personal courage few knew he possessed. He led the parade himself. Even so, Heimwehr-men followed instructions, threw rocks, howled "Pfni Schuschnigg! R-r-r-r-aus mit ihm! Hang Schuschnigg!" Three people were stabbed. Mounted, police swept up 70 cursing Heimwehrmen...
...knowing who came first, the court threw out the case. Rudy Vallee waxed more famous, and Will Osborn, who sounded like him, bore in silence the onus of an imitator. But Will has left St. Andrews College (in his native Toronto) to become an orchestra leader of note. He worked incessantly on special trombone effects, relied less on his voice. A year ago dancers began to notice that Will Osborne had a sweet swing to his playing. Today Rudy Vallee is known chiefly for his radio variety hour will Osborne is known for his band...
...enough. By and by comes a matronly woman with a school of multi-colored children. A matronly woman came by with some brown and some white and some dirty children. I mean some of them were cute; but one was a brat! She threw stones at me; I mean she actually picked up a rock and let it go for all she was worth; and it hit me behind the ear. Behind the ear it hit me; and then the little sissy ran. I mean she hid behind the matron's skirts. It's a damn good thing. I mean...
Thence to lunch at Eliot House. How mighty pretty is the court! And all the afternoon to row in the basin; but the blasted shell threw me. And I much vexed to lose my socks and almost my pants. And a big crowd to stop by and watch me save myself. But I, very serious, not to notice them and to pull up the shell, but bless my soul, to fall in again; and there be much laughter. Soon I to make merry too; but much vexed at my troubles; and rowed not to tell Blake...