Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wicked satire becomes burlesque. The jury is shown in impromptu sleeping regalia. Two lovers are interrupted at their devotions by the snores of a red-headed Irishwoman. There are two crusty moralists, a conventionally exploited Scotsman, a maundering poet-all the stencils of farce, with a brace of beauties thrown in for good measure...
More than 60 years ago a curiosity-consumed railroad newsboy, puttering with chemicals in a baggage car, set the car on fire. At the next station, Smith's Creek, he was thrown off the train by a fuming conductor. Last week the incident was re-enacted with variations. Again a dinky, funnel-stacked, wood-burner chuffed into Smith's Creek station, laboriously pulling its coaches. Out of one coach was helped a shag-browed, stooped old man. He eyed the station signboard, recalled his onetime precipitous arrival at the same platform, smiled ruefully. He was Inventor Thomas Alva...
Ever since I was heaved down the steps of the Fogg Museum the other morning, my head has not been very clear. An interesting thing about that incident was that I could have thrown the fellow back up again if I had felt like it, because like all scions of the renowned house of Huey. I'm not so had at jiu jitsu. Of course I had to be pretty careful about letting people know who I was, because the Cubs are still after me, and there were a couple of their scouts around all week. They would have known...
Yesterday morning a man quietly mounting the steps of the New Fogg Museum was thrown violently down the whole flight by one of the neophytes for no other apparent reason than that he was born and brought up in the Orient. A passerby on Quincy Street was embarrased by public aspersion on his virility. When drinking or initiation requirements lead to this sort of thing it has been time to stop long before...
...Guider Park, Brooklyn, one Matteo Aurierno, 26, was found wandering in the dark, bleeding from deep stabs in his neck and hands. At the police station he related that, while strolling, he was thrown down and slashed by a "personable" woman who then fled, chortling...