Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Contrasted with Vance and his native thirst for literature are Halo and Lewis Tarrant, products of the civilized and cosmopolitan world which Mrs. Wharton knows and likes the best. But in this story she has given her favorites the meagerer parts. Vance's honest bluntness is thrown into even bolder relief by their futile sophistication, their self-deluding cleverness...
...game played between the buttresses and against the walls of Eton chapel), so St. Mark's has its "cloister ball." Each evening after supper students swarm to the open cloister which bounds the fourth side of St. Mark's brick-and-timber quadrangle. A tennis ball is thrown across one of the iron tie-rods in the cloister roof, the object being to strike the succeeding tie-rod, catch the ball on the rebound. Historic are St. Marksmen who make a perfect score of 15 hits in 15 throws. Founded mainly with Joseph Burnett's money (vanilla...
...many days in advance were changed at the last moment. Admiring throngs lined the streets over which it was announced the President was to pass on his automobile trip to Southern Indiana across Louisville's new $5,000,000 municipal bridge (then unopened to the public-but since thrown open to traffic, Oct. 31) and likewise throngs waited in the rain for the President on his scheduled route to the Brown Hotel. Plans were changed so that these routes were but partly used, the bridge was not crossed and thousands of those who made it possible for Kentucky...
...event were quick to label them. Given a profound conviction that the future of U. S. industry was boundless, that there was no limit to the potential value of U. S. securities, where could the line be drawn between farsightedness and folly? Speculation is the shadow of industry thrown forward on the wall of the future. It had been thrown a long way forward during the late Bull Market, its size swollen, its perspective distorted. But though it was a magnified picture, it was not an imaginary picture. Behind the shadow of Speculation there was still the substance of Prosperity...
...Mississippi Gambler (Universal). When Showboat was finished, Universal had plenty of material left over?pantalettes, clippings of river scenes, Joseph Schildkraut's southern accent, beaver hats, some expensive Mississippi locations. These fragments are here thrown together on a framework involving the inherent nobility of a gambler who, after winning the parish funds from Colonel Blackburn, falls so much in love with the Colonel's daughter (Joan Bennett) that he lets her win them back again. Silliest shot: Miss Bennett hearing of her father's betrayal...