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Word: thrower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large cast two members stand out: Nydia Westman, as a flip but honest showgirl, and Clyde Dilson, as a suave but unpleasant Chicago gunman. There is also a knife-thrower who knows his business and a bucking broncho that isn't afraid of a first-night audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Because the French Federation of Feminine Sports denied her application for an amateur racing license on the grounds she wore trousers and used language learned in the army camps of a martial grandfather, Madame Violette Morris of Paris, Olympic discus thrower and all-around athlete, sued the Federation for 100,000 francs. Because Nature had not shaped her conveniently for the accomplishment of her athletic ambitions, she last week horrified Paris by having a surgeon remove both her breasts. Said she: "Sport is all my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pour le Sport | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Labrador missionaries in the past has been to return happily married to one no more, certainly--of the missionary nurses. Since the career of an undergraduate at Yale automatically ends at the altar rail, this place of advice may prove like the boomerang which circles back to decapitate its thrower. If the Yale student returns unmarried, the chances are he will be so much in love that, unable to eat, sleep, or drink, he will be able to do nothing but wander aimlessly around the quadrangle gazing at the moon and composing sentimental poetry to the object of his love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALMA MATRICIDE | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Alain Gerbault of France, though not present, were awarded Olympic diplomas for meritorious individual sporting conduct. At Sloten, on a canal built 20 feet above the land, the University of California eight-oared crew, Olympic favorite, practised before astonished milkmaids, proud tourists. Dr. L. Clarence ("Bud") Houser, discus thrower of Los Angeles, was selected to take the Olympic oath for the entire U. S. team. One day, in practice, he tossed the discus 155 feet through a stage set for a Greek play. . . . The events: Sixteen-Pound Shot Put. Won by John Kuck of the U. S., 52 ft., 11/16...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Olympics | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

Harvard will send only a relay team and a hammer thrower to compete in the Penn relays to be held on Franklin Field. Philadelphia, on Friday and Saturday. It was announced yesterday by Coach E. L. Farrell of the University track forces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RELAY TEAM AND HAMMER HURLER JOURNEY TO PENN | 4/24/1928 | See Source »

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