Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American humor has changed greatly since I have been here, and more still in the last 20 years. Also, it changes so much faster. A good thing in New York is known on the Pacific the next day, and the third day it is thrown out. In Scotland we take it for what it's worth, but we don't scrap it without consideration. As for the jokes about the Scotch, we laugh at them too, but they don't mean anything...
...Correspondents who had meanwhile viewed a pre-showing of Dawn reported that, as displayed to them, the execution of Nurse Cavell was not thrown on the screen at all, but was simply to be inferred from the agonized expression on the face of the German priest who administered last rites...
Like a white light thrown upon the weaknesses of a democracy is the knowledge that in America a plan for early selectivity would be hooted down with yells varying from "unconstitutional" to "dirty race prejudice." Such accusations, would contain a mead of truth. Any man, it has been said, may in America have an education; not infrequently the statement's scope has been widened to include a university education. Ambitious America thirsts after learning; because that thirst went unrecognized until the teens had stolen upon the box is no reason, in the American tradition, for a refusal to appease...
...culture, formality and dignity, learning and catholicity. . . . He was a sturdy champion whose mellow mind and rich, sonorous oratory so often lulled our watchful intelligence to sleep. We gave him our applause forgetful of the gulfs that separated us and of all the challenges that would presently be thrown by us at him when the magic of his oratory ceased to operate...
Item: One knife thrown in the hero's back...