Word: boilingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Reynolds' Illustrated News of London printed: "Lord Linlithgow, the Viceroy of India, was a bit bewildered when he was entertained at tea recently by a wealthy Nawab. To show in what honor he held his visitor, the Nawab had a fire made of rupee notes to boil the water...
...legal authority: ''I tells you all that the Admiralty can do what they like with us. They can hang us, they can shoot us, and they can drown us. There's only two things they can't do to us: they can't boil us in the coppers and they can't put us in the family way." He is equally delighted to remember the disdain of one Chawbags Bayly for the microscopic difference between senior and junior mid- shipmen. Said Chawbags: "I can never see that there is any more difference between...
Another interpretation of the Bullock record was presented by SEC in the form, of comparisons of the various trusts with standard stock-market indices-a comparison which makes most investment trusters boil with rage and resentment. According to SEC, the record of all Bullock trusts except two was worse than the Dow Jones or the Standard Statistics market averages. According to Calvin Bullock, the periods selected for comparison were unfair, and by their computations a number of the trusts showed better performance than the averages...
...danger of James Fenimore Cooper's works as cinema material is that, without his sombre prose (admired by Maxim Gorki and imitated by Joseph Conrad) they generally boil down into an antique kind of penny-dreadful. Scenarists Philip Dunne, John Balderston, Paul Perez, and Daniel Moore worked in shifts for more than a year to keep this from happening to The Lasf of the Mohicans. Net result is an intelligent and exciting version of a story, which, properly loaded with physical action, keeps the imprint of literature...
With the Presidential campaign coming to a boil, Publisher McCormick is prepared to use all his journalistic resources to try to defeat Franklin D. Roosevelt. Therefore, Tribune readers last week confidently expected to see on Page 1 more & more of able Cartoonist Orr's aggressive New Deal attacks, while Cartoonist Joe Parrish backs him up by interpreting McCormick ideas on the editorial page...