Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other ships on the way home, the inspectors poked and peered everywhere through the ship and took their sweet time, two days. One of them, amid much merriment, even managed to fall overboard (see cut p. 14). They even made the Bremen's crew go through lifeboat drill. Furious, an official of the line said: "Now they are searching an empty swimming pool." The delay cost Germany some $6,000. Worse, it gave the British cruiser Berwick ample time to slip out of Bar Harbor, Me. and tag the Bremen across the Atlantic...
...Furious at Wenner-Gren last week were masses of his countrymen. Swedish newspapers flayed him for buying 50 tons of petrol, of which Sweden suffered a War shortage, and setting out on the Southern Cross for a pleasure cruise in the Atlantic...
...Furious little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia told off his police, later snarled to reporters: "I didn't carry any medals down to Police Headquarters." It turned out that Lepke had strolled the streets of New York City for two years, had done some drinking "downtown," disguised only by 20 pounds of fat and a thin black mustache...
...informed an astonished N. M. A. delegation that the president-elect of the Negro National Medical Association, Dr. Jesse Leonidas Leach of Flint, Mich., had been fined by a Michigan Federal district court in 1928 'for selling twelve quarts of bootleg "Sandy MacDonald" Scotch to disguised Federal agents. Furious, N. M. A. leaders spread the news to all 2,000 N. M. A. members...
...Idiot's Delight and two other recent pictures, was signed to a three-year contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mickey's home lot. Salary: $100 a week, $25 more than he was earning at the Follies. Promptly assigned a bit as a stagehand in Fast and Furious with Franchot Tone and Ann Sothern, Joe Yule modestly remarked: "My ambition is to be as much of a success in the movies as I was on the stage...