Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paid $100 a plate for a meal of crab meat in avocado pear figaro, consommé de volaille madrilene, paupiette of Boston sole Marguery, filet mignon sauté with mushroom colbert, salad chiffonade Argenteuil, bombe vanilla sur socle with black cherries jubilee. Cocktails and two kinds of wine were thrown...
...Thrown off stride by the Praying Colonels from Kentucky, Coach Fisher's forces next journeyed to Princeton where the Tigers punched through a 10 to 3 victory, as hundreds got their gridiron thrills vicariously by watching electric "play-by-play" scoreboards at strategic places throughout the University. the Brown Bear, next week, could not contain the team that had been clawed by the Tiger, and in the pre-Yale tilt, the Crimson triumphed...
...with very bad companions. With an urgent score by Hanns Eisler, Director Jean Renoir has concocted a climax in which two men quarrel at the top of their lungs against the deafening sound of squally water and orchestral fortissimo. To balance such experiments, which smack of artiness, Renoir has thrown in some solid domestic naturalism and an excellently staged Coast Guardsmen's dance. Best of all, he has eloquently suited the pale visual tone of the film to the pale air, sea and sand of the locale and to the story's mood of blindness, ambiquity and cryptic...
Evidently the plan was not effective, for, to the majority of the unfortunate pedestrians, the only good thing about the megaphone-shouter-througher was his resemblance to Dick Harlow. Outside of this, the idea of a megaphone shouter-througher seems to have been thrown for a long loss...
...Slash. Sinclair Lewis has scarcely ever put pen to paper without causing controversy; this time, he has thrown himself so furiously into the battle against anti-Negro discrimination that he is likely to arouse the noisiest whirlwind of his career...