Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Elections Committee No. 3, of the House, by a strict party vote upheld Mr. Chandler's claims. It declared that the returns of three election districts (in the Congressional District) should be thrown out because "so badly tainted with fraud that the truth is not deducible therefrom...
Hardly had the railway strike been settled (TIME, Jan. 28 et seq.) than the dockers' section of the Transport Workers' Union went on strike for a 43-cent daily wage increase. More than 110,000 men were idle; 1,000,000 more were expected to be thrown voluntarily out of work if the strike is allowed to get well under...
Hannele. Funeral parlors dramatized, with typical obituary poetry thrown in. Gerhardt Hauptmann's morbid work has been revived at special matinees seemingly so that Eva Le Gallienne may have a good time dying. In the almshouse of a mountain village, she moans and moons through dreams of her mother and of a lover. The big moment comes when she dreams herself into a crystal coffin for the sheer pleasure of expiring in it. A dank, doleful play...
Although no statistics were available on the number of snowballs thrown by urchins about the University, indications were that if this figure could be obtained, another record would be added to the list...
HAROLD SPENDER: "What I wrote for the American paper was a description of Mr. Lloyd George's house and grounds and of his life there, with a few observations thrown in?which they appear to have cut?after spending a weekend there. The observation which has attracted so much attention was only a few lines out of the whole article, but still I thought it was desirable that it should be known. . . . If there is any carelessness in the matter it is entirely mine. I take all the blame. I did not ask his permission to use anything he said...