Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprisingly good companion piece, in the form of "Broadway Musketeers," presents Margaret Lindsay, Ann Sheridan and Marie Wilson as a triumvirate of "women against the world." Graduated from the same orphanage but into very different walks of life, the three are thrown together and their reactions to a common interest are well conceived and excellently portrayed. Star of the picture, however, is six-year-old Janet Chapman, who lacks the publicity-wise sophistication of Hollywood citizens twice...
...standing within ten yards of a large bomb will be torn to pieces, and the pieces thrown for hundreds of yards. A brick wall is not merely knocked down. It is shattered into a hail of projectiles which may kill people at a great distance. At a still greater distance the blast is translated into a wave of sound, but a sound like that of the last trumpet which literally flattens out everything in front of it. ... It is the last sound that many people ever hear, even if they are not killed, because their eardrums are burst...
Last year the labor scene was thrown into turmoil by simultaneous campaigns of two opposing unions, one the A. F. of L. local 30, and the other an "inside" organization formed by the employees themselves and subsequently entitled "The Harvard University Employees Representative Association...
...also announced that the steel stands will be thrown open to school children, sixteen years old or under for the Brown game Saturday with tickets for 25 cents on sale at the stadium preceding the game, which will begin at 2.30 o'clock daylight time...
...entering a foreign war. To oppose such a movement would argue-as loud Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. was already shouting last week-that the Roosevelt Administration is war-minded. To let it pass would tie down the Government so tight that not even its moral weight could quickly be thrown into the lists to preserve world peace...