Word: threw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taking a recess too," shouted Zioncheck, breaking for the door. Policemen collared him, threw him into the pen. Judge Casey, reappearing, slapped on fines of $25 for speeding, $20 for contempt of court. For two hours Representative Zioncheck posed for photographers making faces, clambering up the bars, poking out his hat to beg for money for his fines. Loudly he declared that he would not pay a cent. Loudly he demanded that Speaker Byrns get him out of jail on grounds of Congressional immunity. At the Capitol, Democratic leaders put their heads together, quickly decided that fighting with policemen, speeding...
...Only then will our work be completed and new victories will be added to those which the Italians have attained." "Doo-chay! Doo-chay!" chanted the crowd as the imperial mask cracked and Benito Mussolini beamed with pleasure. Leaping to the driver's seat of the tractor, he threw in the clutch, sent the machine careening off in a 100-ft. circle to mark not the boundaries of Aprilia, but the foundation of Aprilia's town hall. Above the clatter of the engine he roared with laughter at secret service men, stumbling through the mud, breathlessly trying...
...very winding, and after the fifth depression of the accelerator rubber began to shrick on every curve. "This fellows's a fool," barked the driver of the Chevrolet, "he doesn't know when he's had enough." Suddenly the Ford began a Bedlam of horn-honking. It threw such an unchivalrous and vulgar element into the race that the Chevrolet driver immediately became so vexed that, together with a few bitter remarks, he stuck his arm out the window and rudely motioned for the Ford to pass. And pass he did. But alas! it was no gentleman driving the Ford...
...mildly progressive administration; 2) disapproval of Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly and his ruthless Cook County political machine. A vote for Candidate Herman Niels Bundesen might mean: 1) approval of Mayor Kelly and party patronage; 2) attachment to Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune, which threw its arch-Republican influence behind Boss Kelly's candidate...
...Washington, President Roosevelt threw out the first ball, watched the Senators, who have never lost a game while he was a spectator, beat the New York Yankees...