Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Locked Door. The time-honored thought is again illustrated in this comedy that what is freely given is just as freely thrown away. The framework of society is represented in other familiar patterns here, but it has all been freshened up with a new lick of paint. It is rather surprising to find that so much material that has seen service before is still worthy to be taken from the lumber room...
...with a horse ridden by the aged Duke of Connaught alongside the Queen's carriage, and I was forced to abandon the procession and to turn him back and ride him home along a quiet route. Said the newspapers: 'The incident recalls the time the King was thrown from his horse in France during the war and was painfully injured.'" William McFee, famed British author: "In a Commencement address at Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill., I made a few remarks in opposition to those magazines of Big Business, known as 'house organs.' Said...
...That all famous places in the British concessions in China be thrown open to Chinese...
...Shooting of Dan McGrew. Another unconscious burlesque. Robert W. Service's poem, which is alternative to Gunga Din for insistent reciters, has been thrown together on the screen in just the way that might be expected. The Yukon episode, which forms the poem, has been prefaced by incidents in a South Sea dance hall and a Broadway cabaret, from which the greatest pleasure is derived when the cabaret burns down?but without the loss of the chief performer, Barbara La Marr. She plays the lady known as Lou, who runs away with the gambler Dan into the Klondike where...
...which spoke of Boston's great good fortune in being the scene this year of so many remarkable athletic events, when one reads of the results of the Olympic trials. The breaking of five world's records in a single afternoon, with an American record and an Olympic record thrown in for good measure, is probably unprecedented; and the University, with even more justice than Boston, may congratulate itself on its enviable part as host to such a gathering of celebrities, as well as the proud possessor of several...