Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Senator Smoot gone, and with the G. O. P., South, interviewed and dismissed, an unwonted emptiness pervaded the Penney estate. Mr. Hoover was fretful. He had drawn Cabinet lists, rearranged them, scratched them, interlined them, thrown them away and locked his decisions in the secret vault of his mind. Everything was arranged and three slack weeks stretched away to March 4. Other men might have played sportively in the languid Florida sunshine, but not Mr. Hoover. His hands itched to grip the Presidency. He greeted casual callers absently and mused about Washington...
...After John Harvard has had 293 years of varying success, six weeks of apple sauce bid fair to leave him with nothing but a pair of pants and a coat of copper nitrate. And now that tradition has been blackjacked and thrown into a corner, these innovators are licensed to peddle their synthetic culture to the universities, colleges and preparatory schools...
Alden Bennington is on the eve of his marriage to a woman he admires and respects but does not love. He is called to the telephone and thrown into constemation on hearing the girl he really loves warn him she would never marry, and would wait forever for him. Truly a pleasant thing to tell a man the evening he is about to "embark on the greatest adventure in life...
...Exciting Episode occurred soon after the eventful flight. A bit of the ice barrier, to which the Byrd ships were moored, cracked off. The ships lurched violently. Benjamin Roth, aviation mechanic, was thrown into the water. He drifted away from the ship among cakes of ice. Commander Byrd himself jumped overboard to rescue him. After ten minutes, during which Byrd failed to reach Roth, three other men in a boat fished first Roth, then Byrd, out of the water...
Their invitations were accepted by 75 young ladies, among whom were a large number of next year's debutantes, and by twice that number of gentlemen, who were with few exceptions Freshmen. To accommodate such a throng five adjoining suits were thrown open to one another and decked with furniture suited to the occasion, in place of the more ordinary pieces, temporarily abandoned. In each room sat the mother of one of the five, behind her a white-covered, sandwich-laden table. The floor of one room was bared, while a phonograph tempted the gay company to dance...