Word: throws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Picturesque is the story of how the tavern keeper Allessandro Mussolini-father of Benito-warned his tap-wench Rachele Agostini against his son. "Do not let yourself think of that young man," he is said to have said. "It would be better to throw yourself under a train. Married to him you will have neither happiness nor peace...
Commenting on his latest book "The Sea Devil." Lowell Thomas said that he could throw several interesting sidelights on the hero, Count Luckner...
...have now declared that the subway is immoral. To the dwellers in the wicked city who have always been perturbed about their reputation, and who smoke that brand, this information is the straw to break the camel's back. The apparatus of modern civilization has had the tendency to throw the people into the throes of vice, it is true. Dr. Fosdick went as far as to say that a path bestrewn with chewing gum led as surely to Hell as to a telephone exchange, but to have that stigdra east on the subways seems Nemesis. They appeared...
Balk is current nomenclature of two sports. Baseball pitchers make a false motion to throw (called a balk); opponents are allowed to advance one base. Not so in billiards. In high class championship play, lines on the green cloth tablebed are drawn parallel to and 18 inches from the cushions. When two of the object balls are driven into any of the eight spaces bounded by these lines and the rectangles of their intersection such balls are "in balk...
...laugh or cry, For you know some day it'll get you too. And the hearse's next load may consist of-you. They'll take you out and they'll lower you down, While men with shovels stand all around; They'll throw in dirt and they'll threw in rocks, And they won't give a damn if they break the box. The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out, They crawl all over your chin and mouth, They invite their friends and their friends' friends...