Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Offensives. In furious efforts to raise the siege of Madrid last week, its Leftist defenders charged ably and repeatedly, but Rightists, although set back for short distances, put up stiff resistance and Leftist casualties, according to Salamanca reports, were heavy, with gore-glorifying Ernest Hemingway looking...
...land now called Germany there appeared some six centuries ago a curious and fearsome phenomenon. Suddenly and inexplicably large crowds began to dance in the streets with furious abandon, screaming, writhing, foaming at the mouth. The mania spread from city to city, new victims being inspired by sight of wandering sufferers, until most of Central and Northern Europe was a howling, leaping pandemonium. Uncontrollable, the dancers heeded no barriers, dashed out their brains against stone walls, pranced off bridges. Those caught in time were turned over to priests for lifting of curses, casting out of demons...
...rent on Castle Enzesfeld, although its Rothschild owners left some weeks ago, a polite hint. By last week Austrian police, correspondents and such Government officials as have frequent contact with His Royal Highness had in fact soured on Edward. Typical comment: "He gives orders to everybody, shouts and gets furious if police, railway officials and the rest don't jump. The de luxe through express trains have to be stopped to put him down or pick him up from tiny ski stations, something neither the President nor the Chancellor of Austria would ever ask. He doesn't even...
When Elektra shrilled her lust for vengeance in Carnegie Hall last week, Manhattan operagoers heard their first Strauss opera this season, their first Elektra since 1932. Because it is full of furious, hard-driven music, because it is pathologically concerned with adultery and blood, many consider the opera less appealing than Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Others find its eery, passionate songs unforgettable. These were more than grateful when Artur Rodzinski announced he would put on a concert version of the opera with the Philharmonic-Symphony he has been guest-conducting all month (TIME, March 8), looked forward to hearing...
...being literally spat on by a waiting crowd -In Red Peppers, one of the nine plays in Tonight at 8:30, which closed abruptly in Manhattan fortnight ago when Author Coward took to his bed with laryngitis (TIME, March 22). at the stage door. He gave the crowd a furious look, sent his overcoat to the cleaners. Twice he has tired of it all, taken his shattered nerves on world-weary cruises...