Word: furious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They had stowed away on the West Mahwah but were discovered at midnight, two hours after sailing. Furious, Captain Hansen at once ordered a few pieces of painters' staging spliced together, gave the boys two bottles of water and a loaf of bread, set them adrift. At dawn the four castaways sighted Coffin Island 15 miles away, tried to reach it by paddling with their hands. They were still far away that afternoon when the fishing smack Desafio picked them up, carried them to Ponce...
...enthusiasm. When the butler's room is about to be searched for missing pearls, she tears through the house like a four-year-old looking for the Christmas tree, deliriously screaming. "Godfrey, Godfrey, hide them if you've got them, the cope are coming!" Later she plunges about in furious joy, convinced that Godfrey loves her because he put her, dressed in evening clothes, into the cold shower. But, there being no intention to slight that genius of suavity, William Powell, it must be conceded that none other could preserve the impeccable dignity that characerizes him throughout the picture...
...Green Table remains the best of the Jooss ballets, wears well as a masterpiece. In it ten of the dancers mime as diplomats, first suave, later pompous, finally furious. With foolish toy pistols they start the war through which Death stalks, imperiously destroying soldiers and their womenfolk, pecking fatally at a cocky little profiteer, sparing only the diplomats, inscrutably masked, back at the green table again making more trouble...
...very great dangers to city government in this country." Few minutes later Nominee Landon arrived at the Hotel Gibson where 1,200 Republican regulars were gathered to breakfast in his honor. Up to Charlie Taft sped his law partner, Representative John B. Hollister, to whisper that the breakfasters were "furious," that Alf Landon would have to say something to square himself with them. Said the Nominee in his ensuing speech: "I pay tribute to your non-partisan city form of government, its freedom from machine politics and its use of the merit system. But I want...
...other copies of the Greyhounds caused Sculptor Diederich a little embarrassment. One was sold to a Turk who was furious to discover that the bronze was hollow. The other remained in Diederich's studio in New York for years. One evening in 1915 Sculptor Diederich gave a farewell party before moving to another studio. About the third round of drinks the problem of the greyhounds and what to do with them seemed very acute. Somebody suddenly remembered that there was in Central Park a vacant pedestal. With great sweating and grunting the entire party loaded the greyhounds into...