Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pick them up and throw them in in all their Sunday clothes...
...diametrically opposed attitude toward propaganda. Defeated Germans, unwilling to believe in military defeat, believed that Allied cleverness in propaganda, their own clumsiness in it, was largely responsible. On the subject both Generals Ludendorff and Hindenburg were almost pathological. Manifestoed Hindenburg: "The enemy . . . seeks to poison our spirit. . . . His airmen throw down leaflets which are intended to kill the soul...
...Verlaine's respectable family at once by getting Verlaine drunk every night. When Verlaine's wife found on Rimbaud's pillow "little insects which she had never seen before," her husband laughed. Explained Verlaine: Rimbaud keeps "such parasites in his hair to have them handy to throw on the priests" he passes. But it became necessary for Verlaine to rent a separate room for Rimbaud. There the two poets somewhat absinthe-mindedly achieved that "long et raisonné dérèglement de tons les sens" (long and calculated derangement of all the senses) which...
...recently as last April young Polish roughs were beating Ukrainian ringleaders with sticks and iron bars, wrecking their shops and buildings, on the grounds that, plotting revolt, they had hid munitions in churches, machine guns in homes. At that time Ukrainian politicians were said to be itching to throw off Polish shackles even if it meant taking on German ones. But last week Undo (Ukrainian National Democratic Union) declared that Ukrainians would fight beside, not against, Poles...
...matter of fact Harvard is more like a nursery than it is like the Wide World. It is a nursery of talent where every mistake but that of inactivity is condoned. If you throw yourself into the life at Harvard, a small replica of the world, personal and academic errors of judgment will not be too serious because of the arena's small size. But if you wait for a mythical stamp of Harvard to be impressed on you its life will pass you by. This is so because there is no recognizable pattern here, no definite ideal to conform...