Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When pious Doukhobors (religious sect) parade naked in protest, British Columbia police pepper their bare flesh with itch powder, spank their bare backs with short lengths of hose. In Thrums last week 200 angry, itching Doukhobors retaliated by squirting water at the peppering police. After furious scuffling 84 male and 33 female Doukhobors were arrested, charged with nudism, face possible jail sentences of three years...
...Furious, flushing darkly, the Comrade Student slammed shut her notebook, jumped up and left the classroom. Whispered another student to the cameraman whose importance instantly collapsed. "Get out. Comrade Photographer, and get out quick! Don't you know she's Mrs. Stalin...
...Victoria, British Columbia, a furious oath battle raged all week between the Provincial Minister of Public Works. Hon. Rolf Wallgren Bruhn (born Swedish, naturalized British) and the Minister of Education, Hon. Joshua Hinchliffe (born British...
...spattered with blood. Reporters at the ringside held up newspapers to shield themselves. The referee had to wipe blood from his hands between rounds. But still the awkward, stooping little fighter advanced, his gloves now at his head for relief from the hammering it was getting, and now in furious, smashing action against the ribs and head of his opponent. The little fighter's flat nose, freshly broken, bubbled redly as he snorted for breath. His head rocked as punch after punch landed on it. But on & on he went, crowding, slamming, tearing in like a madman trying...
...pushed into the bedroom President Kreuger, dressed in a business suit, seemed peacefully asleep upon his bed. Manhattan's Stock Exchange was still open. The French police were instructed by a Cabinet Minister to keep mum. Even when selling of Kreuger & Toll in Wall Street became so fast & furious that 25.5% of all shares traded were of this issue, no U. S. news agency thought to cable Paris for news of the Match King. His friends announced his death after all world markets closed. Swedish Match once loaned $75,000,000 to the French Government. Matchman Kreuger...