Word: throw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur, 19, was catching up with the rest of the family. He was given a bit part in a strawhat production of The Corn Is Green. His father's prediction: "The little rascal is ham enough so that if he had only one line he'd throw in three...
Then he turned to "this man who calls himself Chambers, alias Adams, alias Crosley, alias Cantwell, and was a member of this nefarious, filthy conspiracy for twelve long years." Midway in his diatribe he veered to throw in a shocker. Discussing the secret documents which the State would present, Lloyd Stryker cried in triumph: "We have the typewriter! We'll let these FBIs come over and look at it all they like...
...television network. Old Kuder goes after Ludviga with some very fancy small talk: "You are a goddess, I am a millionaire, so we are equals. I wish I were younger but immortality is one thing you can't buy even in America." Meanwhile, Dollar Princess Jenny plots to throw her father out of his business and get all the money for herself. She sings: "Love is no good at the bank. Dollars, that's realistic. Money, that is power. I'll buy myself the man I love...
...week's only league game, Penn walloped Dartmouth 15 to 10, to throw the Indians out of a first-place tie with Harvard and Princeton, which beat Yale, 5 to 0. Harvard can tie Princeton for league honors if it beats Yale in the season's only remaining scheduled contest...
Throughout its history the University of Michigan has had a ban on drinking in fraternity houses and dormitories. But any group of Michigan students determined to throw a bottle party in their quarters could think of dozens of speakeasy tricks to foil the campus cops...