Word: fumings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swarming through all Nazi headquarters and the houses of all known Nazi leaders. They found masses of Nazi leaflets, ma-chine-guns, rifles and small arms. Twice in a day they searched the house at Linz of Theodore Habicht, whom Hitler had blandly appointed Nazi "Inspector General for Austria." Fumed Herr Habicht: "Balkan methods!" and asked Hitler to make his house a German consulate. As such it would be extraterritorial, outside the jurisdiction of Austrian police. And Habicht made Dollfuss fume by charging that he had "begged" for an alliance with the Nazis for the autumn elections...
Last week Thomas Bassett Macaulay was no longer serene. In a lot magazine he read things that made him boil and fume...
Friend Cuthbert Wright in his letter of November 4 is indulging in a variant of the old and fascinating game of priest-baiting--fascinating because the gentlemen of the cloth invariably fume so furiously and at the same time so impotently. But this same estimable sir is unfortunate in that the felicity of his pen is unmatched by the maturity of his criticism. If there is anything more offensive than the merriment of parsons it is perhaps the juvenility of minds...