Word: tossing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sculpture was rather momentous in the artistic world. Visitors wandered about regarding the pieces with that half-lethargic curiosity usually accorded the great; and several, ruminatively twisting their printed guides into cones or corkscrews, paid particular homage to a work consisting of a girl, finely poised on her toss and with slender arms flung high...
Unable to get off the mat in the first two minutes, the wrestlers tossed and Emory, winning the toss chose to go down in the referee's hold under Pesek. Pesek was quickly thrown twice to give the Harvard captain the bout...
...dancers (not debutantes) to put their forefingers under her thighs and armpits. All five breathed together, the girls lifted and Miss Maxwell levitated nervously. Back in her chair, she shrilled: "I think it mad fun, utterly mad! I shall introduce it at my party for Noel Coward. . . . Why not toss the subject into the air and then run? It's a splendid way to snub an unwelcome guest. . . . Do it again...
...Record. In the eyes of oldtime politicians Franklin Roosevelt has be witched the U. S. people with his smile, the toss of his head, the hearty frankness of his manner. These personal attributes apparently counted for more with the average citizen than did the concrete record of the President's achievements during 1934. By last week that record was still an unfinished story, with the outcome of many of his executive undertakings still dangling between success and failure. He had kept busy; he had put on a good show; he had exuded cheer and optimism; but he had decisively...
...entire structure of her foreign policy rests upon this assumption. And to her demand for equality, Japan has convincingly demonstrated the solidity of her stand. There is no doubt. She has refused to consider any plan for the limitation of armaments which predicates inequality, and already promises to toss over the Washington Treaty. By this time, it has further become very plain that the United States have nothing now to lose in granting Japan equality except her hostility, and the privilege of unrestricted competition for naval armaments. Are we yet to talk about the 5-5-3 ratio...