Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next in order came 118 pair of shoes with 15 odd ones thrown in ranging from patent leather pumps to ragged sneakers. Trousers, coats, and articles of underwear came next in the race for quantity ranging from 105 to 87 articles, vests lagging far behind, only 51 being contributed. The other articles of clothing contributed included overcoats, bats and caps, shirts, collars, socks, bath robes, and sweaters...
...woman in an old-fashioned bathing suit that reaches to her knees. She presents documents from the Messrs. Morgan, Rockefeller, Gary, Schwab, et al., testifying that she is the most efficient stenographer in the U. S. After glancing at the recommendations, Bernarr glances at the applicant. Forthwith she is thrown out of the window...
...days gone by, it was a custom for the Senior and Freshman pictures to be taken on the same afternoon. The Seniors, after their picture had been taken, would hold up the next picture until the first year men had thrown out enough money to them to pay for the Senior class Picnic...
...sides to every question. In a time of domestic crisis, he took the helm, taxed incomes, lowered the tariff, wiped out a treasury deficit, repealed the corn laws which were obnoxious to the masses. In short-"he lost a party, but won a nation." Soon he was thrown from his horse on Constitutional Hill and died in three days, mourned in manors and in slums According to his will, he was buried, not in Westminster Abbey, but in the church at Drayton...
...Prince of Wales visited a hospital at Brighton, England, stopped to chat with a blind veteran. "Your Highness might help a fellow," said the blind one, "by letting him in on the best bet in the Grand National tomorrow." His Highness smiled, hesitated, suggested Lord Stalbridge's entry, Thrown In, running at odds 100-1 against...