Word: throws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condemned as a renegade and a disgrace to his high profession. Mr. Benda is finally imbued with a thoroughly anti-Teutonic point of view. Dispassionate modern history can scarcely be expected to accept so categorical a statement, for instance, as: "The clergy of the allied nations are eager to throw in the faces of the German clergy their union with injustice in 1914. They abuse their own good fortune in belonging to nation's whose cause happened to be just...
...Webb plan is to throw the election into the House of Representatives. Nominee Webb thinks that can be done by winning the Northwest. "Smith is educating the farmer to vote for us. I'll take five votes from Smith to one from Hoover," he said last week...
...tiresome though it is to turn out ponderous periods, life is often brightened by the gorgeous retorts of the heathen. For example, this is the answer one Hooverizer got when he approached an insurgent South Dakota editor: "I am for Hoover just about as far as you can throw our party elephant by the pin feathers with your arm broken in four places...
...opened with a homily upon the enslavement of the British workingman to Drink and Gambling. Not that Ben advocated prohibition or anything that would throw brewers or distillers out of work, "but," said he sagely, "over ?600,000,000 [$3,000,000,000] are spent annually in Great Britain on these two social customs, principally on the workingman's beer and his bets on horses and dog racing...
...just received a letter which purports to throw some light on Belgrad's murder of Stefan Radic and his comrades. ... All eyewitnesses agree that S. Radic was very quiet that day and has not called "pigs!" the Government Deputies...