Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sublimely tragic. It is certainly not funny; its neatly turned phrases and condensed, polished dialogue are not calculated to make it that. Nor is it entertaining or satisfying; it confirms no one in his preconceptions. Rather is it irritating social comment with a few dramatic moments carelessly thrown...
...properly displayed on newsstands. On its regular force True Confessions employs only about a dozen field representatives, having no boy sales organization. In a long message to wholesalers last week, True Confessions complained that "organizers have been covering up copies of True Confessions on the newsstands . . . and have . . . thrown them in the dealers' return...
...mind absorbs more quickly what is thrown on a screen than what the individual reads in the little red school book," DeMille said...
...water, laid in for a two-day trip, to himself. On the fourth day, Christmas Eve, thoroughly scared, Spernak and Home managed to steal up to Jack Morgan, fell him with a marlin spike. In the scuffle he went overboard, into the shark-infested waters where he had thrown dead Dwight Faulding. Then, some 500 miles away from home off the Mexican coast, without fuel for the auxiliary engines and a mainsail disabled by storms. the skipperless Aafje turned to drift back...
...unsparing book. The fascists who crowd its pages are brutal, the revolutionists fanatical, the peasants stupid, the intellectuals timidly ineffectual or suicidally brave. Writing with deceptive simplicity, sometimes introducing real people like Andre Malraux, Nogales occasionally hits a strange note of lyric violence: "In the morning light a bomb thrown from an airplane leaves behind a pretty, luminous wake. The tuning fork of space vibrates on being struck...