Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That irrepressible Parisien, M. Louis Dolgara, smart critic, minor poet, submitted on a wager, last week, to an horrific sentence which he has often passed on other poets: "They ought to be thrown to the lions." At Le Cirque, de Paris rash Poet Dolgara entered a cage replete with mangy kings of beastdom and sat down to read selections from his poems. He declaimed for half an hour. The weary lions yawned, then dozed, then slept. Triumphant, impertinent Louis Dolgara emerged to jest: "My fame shall be greater than Daniel's! My work has stood trial by lions...
...reached, the author hits upon the novel expedient of citing references from an imaginary biography of David Schuyler for her data. This has its drawbacks, inasmuch as David is represented as a young man in 1928 not to become prominent for some years to come. So the biography is thrown indefinitely into the future. It is an interesting procedure, but has obvious shortcomings...
...have no man who has officially thrown the hammer 180 feet, but there are several Americans who can reach the 160 foot mark, and they are bound to improve by July," E. L. Farrell, University track mentor said yesterday, as he continued his series of interviews with the CRIMSON, discussing America's track prospects at the coming Olympics...
...Americans would probably take the second, third, fourth, and fifth places, as Ide from Penn State has done 162 feet, and Linn and Black have reached the 160 foot mark. "Then of course there is McGrath, who will compete in the Olympics for the fourth time, and has thrown the hammer a distance of 170 feet," Farrell remarked...
Thus Mayor Thompson has entertained a visiting potentate and made for good feeling between Chicago and one, at least, of the British Isles. In Chicago no bricks were thrown at President Cosgrave, for "Big Bill" had instructed his people that such procedure is not good form in receiving an honored visitor. Chicago has outstripped Boston in its cordiality to a British sympathizer; for Cosgrave is so looked upon by the Irish Republicans. His omission of a visit to Boston is generally ascribed to a fear of hostility from that direction in Boston. The situation is anomalous. But then they...