Word: thrown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...finished. Kendrick Glasby, star reporter of the local daily, upon whose stalwart young person was concealed a sere little volume in calf called Histoire des Pirates Anglois, with a marker at the tale of fearless Mary Read, entered the gathering whirl of events through another card of Hiltonshurley Moggs, thrown away by a thirsty rumdum to whom Mr. Moggs had given a pint of whiskey instead of a dole. It looked to Kendrick like a good little story. It became an epic. Ruth Pudley's bright-haired presence is even simpler to explain. She was "busted" out of Bryn...
...interesting side lights thrown in on your articles by the use of reference marks add zest to the reading...
...Dawes Revisions Scheme, as outlined, proposes the payment of German reparations in "producers goods," such as mining machinery, which it is proposed to install, for example, in French Morocco, thereby giving employment to French workers. Should Germany pay in "consumers goods", shoes for example, numerous French shoemakers would be thrown out of work. The cost of financing concerns to operate the "producers goods" and return a profit is expected to be borne by loans from the U. S. and allied nations. Sir Frederick Whyte: "It is very doubtful whether the united armies of Asia could ever be set in motion...
...Jumping Jack") Jones and David Kirkwood (Laborite extremists, chanting in unison) : "We demand ... to be thrown . . . out ... of ... THE HOUSE...
Rising from her dive, she saw a woman standing on the shore. Would Mrs. McPherson come with her to see a dying baby? In a sedan parked by the shore, another woman sat holding a bundle baby-wise; she got into the car, a coat was thrown over her head, a sickly sweet odor sickened her. . . . She woke somewhere in a cot at dawn. Two men stood over her. One of them was named Steve. The woman's name was Rose. They told her that she could go free as soon as her mother (Mrs. Minnie Kennedy...