Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will the State election be neglected. If Haigis, the Republican gubernatorial nominee is leading, a circle of green lights will be thrown on top of Sever Hall, and relayed from there over to Widener by easy stages. A lead of Hurley, Bourbon aspirant, will be indicated by emptying a case of old champagne into the crowd below...
...declared that "America is doomed unless Landon is elected." Cox declared that the issues were many, and included "Farleyism, politics in relief, deceitful bookkeeping, economy, and security." He agreed that business had improved but said recovery "started only when the N. R. A. and the A. A. A. were thrown out by the Supreme Court...
...even readers impressed with Author Farrell's grimly powerful portraits of poverty are likely to be thrown off by their monotony, by his characters' obsessed disgust with sexual and other bodily functions that has the strange effect of making them seem uniformly immature...
...clumsy persistence in trying to formulate stop-gap measures to replace laws ignominiously thrown out by the Supreme Court is typical of his underhand methods. If he had sufficient courage to brave the political blast, he would come out in favor of a constitutional amendment to legalize Hot Oil, Guffey Coal, and A.A.A. The people could then endorse or reject his theories of government and would be able to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted a planned economy and governmental regulation or industry. These fundamental issues, which differ widely from ideals that Americans have hitherto cherished, must...
Almost nothing may be legally thrown into the street, ice, hair, mud: you can't even beat a carpet there, or tie a horse to a tree...