Word: threw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kaiser" campaign, but resumed his seat in the House (1920) and leadership of the Liberal Party. Later he made peace with Mr. Lloyd George in the year following the letter's fall from the Premiership (1922). The two uniting against the tariff proposals of Premier Stanley Baldwin threw the Liberal party behind the first and only Labor Government of Britain (1924) and caused the fall of this cabinet by withdrawing Liberal support later in the same year. He was created Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1925) thus becoming leader of the Liberals in the House of Peers and leaving...
...some months now Carnegie Hall has stood on its Manhattan corner red and warm and shabby, a little ashamed, it seemed, to be caught staying in town during the summer. Last week it raised its head to oldtime haughtiness, threw open its doors, spilled its lights onto Fifty-seventh street, stood proud again, important, among the young upstarts that tower head and shoulders above it. It was the occasion of the first Philharmonic concert, the 2086th in the history of the Philharmonic Society, the 85th season...
...Scott, Burns and Whittier to the humble acceptance of membership in the First Congregational Church of Washington right after inauguration. It is, however, a good wind which blows no one any ill. When a certain group of gentlemen in Washington heard of the Barton-Coolidge heart-to-heart they threw into the air, not their hats, but grim imprecations. They held an indignation meeting last week and long before their ire had begun to evaporate, composed a three-page letter to Mr. Coolidge, telling him, and asking him, this and that in language of a type which Presidents seldom encounter...
Host of Hosts. In Chicago Harry C. Moirs threw open the doors of his new ten-room bungalow atop the Hotel Morrison, welcomed in for its dedication 300 members of the American Hotelmen's Association who were in Chicago for a three-day convention. Later they re-elected Thomas D. Green (Woodward Hotel, Manhattan) president; chose Fred Bering (Hotel Sherman, Chicago) secretary, Samuel E. Leeds (Atlantic City) treasurer...
...traveled in the Prince of Wales' suite, a man who had risen to the top. Sanders Wertheim fumbled in his pocket, produced a five dollar goldpiece, flung it onto the pier. His employes, heads of departments, white collar men, scrambled for it. Sanders Wertheim threw another. Again a scramble. The ship was sidling from the pier. Until the gap of brown water grew too wide, he continued to throw silver, gold, the employes continued to scratch each other, punch, prod, and squirm to pick up his largesse...