Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this, furious uproar burst from both sides of the House. Unable to still its bedlam, the Speaker got up from the chair and by stalking out suspended the session. Twenty minutes later he stalked back to ask suspension of the Independent Labor Party's Buchanan & Campbell Stephen. This was voted, 248-to-53. Home Secretary Sir John Simon resumed his interrupted speech, and all seemed about to go off smoothly when Frederick Seymour Cocks of the Labor Party rose to face Sir John and declare in calm, measured tones: "This Right Honorable Gentleman we all know...
...Poland one of his Nazi specialties, dearly loves to shoot wild boar at the hunting lodge of Poland's President. Within 24 hours the German Press, which had been lauding Nose-Thumber Greiser, slued around. It was suddenly discovered-or at least printed-that Adolf Hitler had been "furious" about the crude nose-thumbing, so lacking in "good tone." Thus rapped, Danzig's Greiser made most conciliatory and reassuring declarations to the Polish representative in Danzig, left spunky little Warsaw more than ever convinced that the way to deal with a Nazi is to smack him first...
...Brown answered that he was so full of his subject that he could write it in an hour if he could borrow a typewriter. Editor Page "gave him a desk and some copy paper and some cigarets. He went into a brief trance and then started typing at a furious rate. In about 45 minutes . . . he was done. . . and gave me ten or a dozen sheets of typescript. These I read quickly, finding to my surprise that he had done a remarkably good job. . . . By this time the office had closed and I invited him out for a quick drink...
...Freddie Steele, orangutan-fisted boxer of Tacoma, Wash.; the world's middle-weight championship; by out-pointing Syracuse's Charles ("Babe") Risko in 15 furious rounds; in Seattle...
...Eden had said against Italy, and being anxious to oblige such good customers, Argentine Foreign Minister Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas last month made the original demand that the League Assembly of 53 nations meet in Geneva this week and vote rousingly against Il Duce. Last week Dr. Saavedra was furious and in Buenos Aires refused to be interrogated in the Argentine Chamber. His aides waved their hands and said how could he know that the "emotional" British would switch completely around, and how could the whole thing ever be explained to "logical" Argentine public opinion...