Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their pictures front-paged in the Soviet press day after day. In several cases a promoted youth was astonished to find his picture almost as big as the one appearing of the Dictator. Joseph Stalin ordered the traditional celebration of Youth Day in the Red Square, but a furious downpour of rain forced the Dictator to postpone it for six days when roughly a million youths, calling themselves the "Stalinist generation," paraded before the khaki-coated, pipe-smoking Dictator. Meanwhile Stalin had his Government triumphantly announce that...
...always alive with yachts, junks, ferries, sampans, freighters, liners, men-of-war. Last week it was more than usually jampacked with shipping taking refuge from Shanghai's war 1,000 miles to the north. Suddenly in from the China Sea blasted the worst typhoon in ten years. So furious was the wind that observatory instruments, capable of registering up to 125 m.p.h., broke down...
...National Bank of Belgium, the Bank still listed him as a vice governor, had not chosen a successor. Broadly he hinted that Paul van Zeeland was still accepting his $20,400 salary as a bank official, in addition to his much smaller salary as Premier of Belgium.* Furious, Premier van Zeeland swore that this was a lie, offered to open all his private accounts. Parliament believed him. Gustave Sap's own Catholic Party demanded that he either apologize publicly or leave the organization. Gustave Sap refused to do either, sued a number of his Catholic brethren for slander...
Upon charges by the Guild that the older union had failed to unionize the opera field, the A.A.A.A. announced a hearing in the Manhattan headquarters of Actors Equity Association. Furious, aware that the skids were already greased for their union, the Grand Opera Artists' high command, led by a Hippodrome baritonfe named Giuseppe Interrante, held a mas|; meeting in Steinway Hall. Star speaker was not a worker but an employer-Al-fredo Salmaggi, explosive, long-haired manager of the Hippodrome troupe, who once weathered a G.O.A.A.A. strike-between the acts of A'ida when the company suspected...
...were addressed to a beautiful, blonde, black-eyed married woman (daughter of the Earl of Essex), contemporaries were satisfied that Sir Philip Sidney's love-making remained a strictly literary affair. The single criticism ever to touch his reputation on that score came from Queen Elizabeth, who, always furious at the slur to her own magnetism whenever her young men married, acted when "my Philip" married as though he had gone the limit in Elizabethan sensuality...