Word: thrower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though Author Gribble was said to have supervised the direction of the present production, many faults could be found in the manner of its production. The leading members of the cast sometimes flung their lines about with just such misplaced vigor as a hammer thrower might use in hurling a toy balloon; they reached for comedy like a first baseman trying to catch a butterfly. Josephine Hull played Mrs. Rodney with great cunning, while Dorothy Stickney, who was a mad murderess in Chicago, brought down cheers for making Claudia Kitts as raucous as a finger nail dragged across a blackboard...
Midnight Gift. A pomegranate hurtled, one night last week, through the bedroom window of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin. When pouncing police collared the fruit thrower he pleaded tipsily: "L'l gift! L'l present, my lasht pomegranate...
...gentleman has been in the act of throwing the plate, or discus, for some centuries since he was carved out of Attic marble by Myron, the Greek sculptor, and he is known to the world as Diskobolos, or discus thrower. Professor Chase will speak on the Diskobolos and other works of Myron at 12 o'clock today in the Fogg Museum...
...home, vivid questions may have flashed before his mind. Who was the bomber? Perhaps an accomplice seeking to avenge the three political "outs" who were executed (TIME, June 8, 1925), after they blew up the Sveti Krai Cathedral, in Sofia, just before a state funeral. Or perhaps the bomb thrower was "just a man with a grudge." There was no telling. In Bulgaria the Tsar sometimes finds poison in his dessert (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925) ; and a Premier may be prostrated but scarcely surprised if his own brother is shot down in the street (TIME, Nov. 9, 1925). . . . Most unfortunately...
...league baseball, what position besides second base, third base, or shortstop, is never filled by a left-handed thrower...