Word: furious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often find useful in masking their intentions, the Government created a sensation by announcing that several units of the Mediterranean fleet which went home for King George's Jubilee Review were preparing to steam back to their stations ominously led, "a week early," by the aircraft carrier Furious...
Italian troops had already suffered several reverses. Early in 1896 General Baratieri cabled for reinforcements. The Italian Parliament voted money and men and appointed General Baldissera to succeed Baratieri. Furious, Premier Crispi saw his grand gesture petering out. He sent an angry telegram to General Baratieri, flaying the "military paralysis" that was seizing operations in Ethiopia...
Back at his office, Mr. Gadsden found that in his absence a Black committee investigator named Blomquist had ransacked both his official and personal files. "He actually went through my personal checkbook," cried the furious utilitarian. "I think it's an outrage...
Beneath Helen Jacobs' first wish to be a tennis player there must have been a furious hope to be like her famed neighbor. The irony of her success was that the more she became like Helen Wills the more dramatically she emphasized the differences between them. For Helen Wills Moody to defeat her on the tennis court with superb, indifferent ease ? at Wimbledon in 1929 and 1932, at Forest Hills in 1928 and 1931?became a matter of routine. While Helen Wills Moody was feted in London and Paris, Helen Jacobs was mentioned in the newspapers as the unfortunate...
...Mayor," snapped sinewy, grey-maned Architect Wright, "knows next to nothing about drunks, babies or Democracy." Furious Mr. Wright's opinion of Pittsburgh shortly appeared in the Sun-Telegraph: "Pittsburgh as a centralization is obsolescent...