Word: threw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wholesale merchants), General Prior is an economizing man. He hates to think about the way the blockade is ruining Denmark's exports of foodstuffs. Day after General With retired, Denmark's Army (peacetime strength, 11,000) held maneuvers. To save money, it used fireworks to indicate artillery, threw turnips instead of hand grenades...
Appeals, with Judge Manton writing the decisions, threw out both suits against American Tobacco Co., one judge dissenting. Judge Manton was convicted last June for conspiring to sell decisions of his court. And, as a sequel of the Manton conviction,' Judge John Knox of the United States District Court last week, wrote a 50-page decision ordering Louis Levy's disbarment...
Last week when Marcel Tabuteau sat out in front of the orchestra at a Manhattan concert and soloed in Mozart's Quartet in F Major for Oboe and Strings, hard-boiled critics threw kisses at the ceiling, and at the end of the first movement the audience cheered. Marcel Tabuteau grinned uneasily, but he did not rise to acknowledge the applause. When it was all over he boosted himself out of his chair and hobbled off the stage. Marcel Tabuteau had the gout. For two weeks, on tour, he had been traveling in wheel chairs, ambulances, on crutches...
This latter group, disgusted by excesses of emotionalism and structural looseness, made a vigorous attempt to clarify their writing and restore classical formal principles. They threw out or slighted soft, luscious sound combinations and meandering formal styles which predominated in the music to which they objected. Now a gracious, less rigid type of writing seems to be coming back, perhaps because composers feel themselves on safe ground formally and not apt to fall into the excesses against which they reacted...
Britain's teachers tried desperate devices to keep the évacués out of mischief. They staged boxing and wrestling matches, started all sorts of games. Nevertheless, bored, homesick city toughies formed gangs, roved the countryside, beat up village children, threw stones at policemen, let pigs out of their pens, chased cows, skirmished with enraged farmers...