Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phrase of the Garrick Gaieties (now on Broadway), though Friedrich Augustus III once had a "seat on his throne," he has since been "thrown on his seat...
...life of Benito Mussolini can be thrown into greater antitheses. Born in the town of Forli (some accounts say Varano di Costa), he heard his father at an early age declaiming against the constituted state of society. His father was a convinced revolutionary, and like father little Benito grew to be. Had it not been for his devout mother, he might never have received an education -such as it was-at the normal school of Forlimpopoli, a nearby village to which the Mussolinis had moved...
...worried about losing my job. I can make a living anywhere, but of course to be thrown out of employment just at this time would handicap me in fighting this case...
...after he had entered the hotel, swarms of Black Shirts scooted down the mountains, congregated before Signor Amendola's hotel, groaned, booed, hissed. Finding little satisfaction in this, the crowd began to surge backward and forward, like a busy battering ram, in an effort to break the police cordons thrown round the building. Eventually several Fascisti dashed by the police, entered the hotel, chased Signor Amendola up to his bedroom on the fourth floor where he locked himself in. His secretary received a black eye for being heavy of foot and stiff of limb. At this point, Fascist Deputies prevented...
...father, Abdul Hamid, was one of the astutest and most brilliant of the 36 rulers of the Turkish House of Osman. Had he been less brilliant, the Young Turks might not have thrown him into prison...