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Word: furiously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...VIII, later used as a state prison. Rigidly hostile to "trade," the Squadron refused to admit the late Sir Thomas Lipton (tea) even though he had been proposed at the request of King Edward VII, had spent a fortune trying to win the America's Cup for Britain. Furious with the Committee, King Edward reputedly summoned the Commodore, asked: "Can't it be done?" Replied the Commodore: "It can, Sire,* but if it is, the R. Y. S. will have but two members-yourself and Sir Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Private Pants | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

Suzanne began a furious correspondence mingling hysteria with threats, telling him he would be sorry some day. Realizing now what a "dangerous and artificial girl" she was, he congratulated himself on his narrow escape, vowed he would thereafter confine himself to friends and history. Even the great Rousseau was mixed up in Suzanne's plot to marry him. Rousseau said he would speak to Gibbon, but was glad an accident prevented the appointment, since Gibbon would only make her "unhappy and rich in England." After her marriage to Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's famed Minister for Finance, Suzanne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ugliest Historian | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...muralists, Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. Missouri's Benton completed his first murals in Manhattan's New School for Social Research in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931) and a movement of great and wild vitality was in full swing. By the time Orozco finished his famed, furious panels in Dartmouth's unoffending library in 1934, hundreds of young painters were trying to master mural technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gentle Hogarth | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...picture was promptly banned in Chicago by the police censor, the public release was. if anything, more anti-climactic than the showing by the committee, which had the benefit of a slow-motion reprint. The main clash is over so quickly that the impression is simply one of furious confusion. All taken from the police side, it shows no fighting closeups, none of the strikers in action. Audiences last week did not begin to hiss, boo and shout until they had seen close-ups of the dead, dying and wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Cops | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...heart until, just as the time was drawing near for her debut, she met dour young Doctor Ivan. Ivan thought dancing and dancers ridiculous, but not Irina. They took each other so seriously that old Borodin had to order her back to her professional duty. Ivan was furious when she obeyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Russian Adventure | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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