Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Luisa Tetrazzini-she for whom cannon have been fired, roses thrown, dress-suited cavaliers hitched in place of horses to glistening carriages-appeared in Albert Hall, London, before some Britishers. The Hall was more than half empty. The buxom woman trilled her best but Oh! the stolid faces, Ah! the gaping stalls. Afterwards, downcast, she assailed her agents, saying that they had charged too ninth, advertised too little. The agents politely replied that a singer of Tetrazzini's fame did not need much advertising, that she could command tall rates, but that she should not cheapen her voice...
...last two years, a peculiar annual cycle in business has been seen. Dealers have refused to stock up and have thrown the task of "holding the bag" back on the manufacturer. Now the manufacturing industry, broadly speaking, is overbuilt with productive facilities, as a result of War and post-War conditions. Consequently, when genuine demand begins to increase, It one manufacturer fails to advance his production rate swiftly, his competitor will do so and grab the business. Thus, as soon as buying begins, output is tremendously stimulated all around; and so out of proportion are most U. S. productive facilities...
...sort of "scholastic Walpurgis Night" ensued; restraint was thrown to the winds and college exercises, as well as many students, were suspended. Finally, in a climax of resentment, the entire Sophomore class carried out its favorite threat and left Cambridge, 80 strong. A score or so were coaxed back and some 40 or 50 were subsequently pardoned...
...this time of year are the muscles, eyes, tempers and agilities of certain famed players. For, though there are over 500 able individuals en, roled in the two leagues, there is actually only a handful for whom the grand army of snobbish rooters has eyes, for whom hats are thrown, bottles broken, hosannas raised. And of this handful, nine great names are fanfaronaded louder than all others on the bugles of the press...
Alexander Woollcott - "Much effective material thrown to the wind in the writing and to a certain extent in the acting...