Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more eccentric their variations. Shields would take a phrase, play all around it on his clarinet. La Rocca would pick it up for a few "licks," pass it on to Eddie Edwards' trombone. Henry Ragas' piano set the tempo. Tony Sbarbaro's drums rattled a furious counterpoint. Other New Orleans bands had similar technique but none developed it so highly as the Dixieland, whose members rehearsed so often together that each player could almost mind-read the others' musical intentions. In 1916 they were offered $125 a week to play in a Chicago cafe...
...plaster statuet of Justice went sail ing through the air, crashed against the wall. Like prudent woodchucks the three judges ducked, shouting orders to clear the court. All over the courtroom Fascists and police were mixing it up. Furious Primo de Rivera kicked impotently at the panels of the bench itself, swept off files of papers...
...arranged with the U. S. District Attorney to be kept in touch with the case, went to that official, asked about its progress. They were told that the Walleys had walked into Federal Court fortnight before, pleaded guilty, been dismissed on payment of $25 fines. Investigation by furious game protectors disclosed that the Walleys were members of an old Mississippi family who exert considerable influence in their State's politics. Their late father, a Methodist preacher, was a onetime State Senator, regarded by many wildlife enthusiasts as the source of Racketeer Bogle's political protection. Rev. Columbus Walley...
...historic bad blood that exists between Frenchmen and Germans is no more bitter than the hatred between French Socialists and French Royalists. Last week furious Editor Charles Maurras of the Royalist Action Française was led into a Paris court to answer charges that an editorial of his had incited Frenchmen to attack rich Socialist Leader Leon Blum, who is slated next week to become France's first Jewish Premier. Three months ago Editor Maurras was fined $6.50, sentenced to four months in jail on the grounds that a previous editorial had inspired a Royalist mob to give...
...lifted ten pages without acknowledgment. The quarrel that finally broke up their friendship was over a scenario on which they had collaborated for a proposed play. Moore wired Yeats that he had written a novel on the subject, threatened an injunction if Yeats tried to use it. Furious, Yeats got together with Lady Gregory and another friend, ground out the play in a fortnight, published it in an Irish newspaper, spiked Moore's guns. Yeats admits that he looks back on the incident "with some remorse." His final summation of Moore: a great realistic novelist, but-no style...