Word: threw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Comrade Litvinoff outwardly conformed to diplomatic precedent, his language at international powwows was at first considered distinctly bad form. Once, for instance, he threw diplomatic minnesingers off key by proposing-at a disarmament conference of all places-complete disarmament. At a fatuous session of the League of Nations he congratulated the Assembly for "your decisive step backwards." Of the now many times violated Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact he said: "Nothing will come of it." But Soviet Russia signed...
...dessert were still to come. With Kirsten Flagstad, Marjorie Lawrence, Kerstin Thorborg, Eyvind Laholm and a galaxy of other top-flight singers, Conductor Goossens and his Cincinnati Symphony dished out the whole of Saint-Saens' opera, Samson et Dalila, and Act II of Wagner's Parsifal, threw in Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and a brace of 18th-Century oratorios, and filled in the chinks with miscellaneous nuts and raisins of symphonic, operatic and choral music...
Lupe Lupien provided the winning margin in Harvard's half of the frame with a two-run single to right. Healey led off with the second of his three singles of the day. Maxson, Green burler, threw wild to second on Johns' grounder, and all hands were safe. Hoye's sacrifice bunt advanced the two runners...
When one yard cop, who attempted to "break it up, boys!" was bleed down, he called one of his cohorts. The Puritans on the roof thereupon threw gallons of water on them...
...though it did not, despite Hollywood wags, cost more than the railroad itself. DeMille budgets are the result of an overmastering passion for detail and a policy of shooting everything in sight. Of the 205,000 feet of film exposed for Union Pacific, DeMille and his cutter, Anne Bauchens, threw away all but 12,158. On the set DeMille manipulates his mobs through a special public-address system. When unit directors go to remote locations, he stays in Hollywood, keeps in constant touch by telephone and through emissaries described (by Manhattan's elegant railroad amateur Lucius Beebe, a technical...