Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been intending to cancel my subscription to TIME for the same reason the Rev. Father and Mr. Applegate give. "The Chaplin case" [TiME, Jan. 24] has decided it. The Literary Digest gives me all the news without filth thrown...
...Passed 49-27 the Naval Appropriation Bill carrying $320,000,000 including $1,200,000 for the immediate construction of three cruisers. The cruisers had previously been thrown out in the House by 22 votes, most of the Republican leaders voting for the cruisers against the President's wishes. In the Senate, the "radicals" and a few staunch Administration] sts sided with the President against cruisers. A majority of both parties were impressed by figures: Great Britain has 54 cruisers, Japan 25, U. S. 15.* The cruiser item will again be fought in the House, but passage is likely...
...office continued to force the Repertory to go to the ends of the earth for its scenes, and to the musty files of the theatre for its plots, we shall thank God that some gracious chance has thrown Louis Lean Hall into the best pot-pourri. He, with an artistry unique in that cast, achieves the most fascinating transitions in play after play, from African brigand to English sea captain, from doctor to slave without the least show of strain. Long live his daily bread...
Spending Money. "It is significant that the Congress has not granted the total amount requested in any single budget. It is pleasurable and easy to give. It is difficult to withhold. If the Treasury vaults were thrown open and its accumulated capital drawn upon until not a dollar were left, even then would we not be able to satisfy the demands that probably would be made from various groups and from various localities. And who will say that these demands may not "have justification? Projects that eventually will be resolved into completed works, purposes and policies that in time...
...Black Archduke passed through the Gate of Honor, two lines of guards with leopard skins thrown over their shoulders saluted. They saluted again when the three other Habsburg Archdukes entered: Archduke ("Papa") Friedrich (father of Albrecht); Archduke Josef, his mutton chop whiskers sprouting above a crimson field-marshal's uniform; and his son, Archduke Franz, clad in a golden tunic, lost in the high sable collar of his purple cape...