Word: throwing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stan Shaw is a skinny, jumpy, 31-year-old ex-teacher of psychology and ex-orchestra leader from Kansas City. He and his aides never hand records back & forth, they throw them. With a great play at keeping everything Grade A on the Milkman's Matinee, Assistant John Flora prepares pots of refreshing black coffee for all hands, takes over the mike now and then if Stan's mouth is full. When 7 a. m. rolls around, the crew go out and have dinner; if the weather is right, they ride out to Floyd Bennett Field and hire...
...Fred Nolan tried out another one: two-and three-hour "fresh-air cruises" for Detroiters in D.S.R. busses to River Rouge Park and other local beauty spots. The fare: 15? for adults, 10? for children. First night five busses were used, the second 13. Smart Fred Nolan prepared to throw into D.S.R.'s fresh-air cruises all the equipment that was needed...
This week's chapter of the strike began with violence as 3,000 pickets battled 450 police and 30 firemen at the Fisher Body plant in Cleveland. As 35 people were carted to hospitals, Strikeleader Joseph Bagano said: "We will continue to throw stones, turn over cars and resist these scabs until they get religion and stay home where they belong...
...obvious present-day implications, Author Mann lets his political chips fall where they may, lets his readers pick up whatever chips they prefer. Some readers will find that Henry's intriguing enemies, disgruntled Protestants, priests, Jesuits, Spaniards, resemble Nazis; others will be reminded of Communists. Fussed historians will throw up their hands at the free-&-easy handling of history. But few will deny that thoroughgoing German Heinrich Mann, in seasoning this lump of historical data into a right royal and highly spiced narrative, has produced, if not a first-rate novel, a monster tour de force...
...option on the opera house for $1,500,000 (one-third cash). Should the option contract be approved by the box holders, the Metropolitan would once more publicly pass the tin cup, as it did to keep going in 1933-35. But this time the Metropolitan might well throw in its lot with The People, get the Diamond Horseshoe out of hock for good...