Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week wrathful Teller Beckett, like a man beside himself, laid hold of the massy golden emblem, raised it to his shoulder and attempted to scurry out of the House! Up at once, aghast and furious, leaped Admiral Sir Colin Keppel, the Sergeant-at-Arms, to dash from his pew in pursuit. But Sir Colin's ceremonial sword caught in the pew, delaying him, and it was a spry messenger who overtook Beckett, took the Mace from him, handed it to Sir Colin when he arrived. Sir Corin then, with measured tread and awesome frown, marched back with Cromwell...
...escort Gandhite Brockway and Mace-Snatcher Beckett last week "from the Parliamentary precincts." Suspended, they might not resume their seats until this week. It was even said that at the next election the Labor Party will' refuse to let Mr. Beckett run again as one of their candidates, so furious were mem bers of that party at his unseemly con duct...
...next few hours were chaos for managing editors. Hearst executives were frantic; offered fat sums (reputedly $5.000) for a print. They wired "The Chief" in California, even besought Grandfather Dwight Morrow to intercede for them. More furious, if possible, was Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of the Daily News. Heatedly but futilely he demanded that A. P. General Manager Kent Cooper obey the A. P. rules, supply the News with a picture...
...entourage for his friend Mr. MacDonald sent along on the Rodney two M.P.'s and two Members of the House of Lords. One of the latter was peppery Baron Newton who, in a recent furious attack upon the Labor Government for recognizing Russia, called Bolsheviks "un attractive animals which, like boa constrictors and alligators, accept food, only to show their ingratitude by swallowing their keepers" (TIME, March...
Insurmountable obstacles, a furious avalanche and one death last month caused Gunther O.Dyhrenfurth's mountain climbing party to abandon hope of ever reaching the top of Kanchenjunga, 28,150-ft. Himalayan peak (TIME, May 26, et seq.). Disliking to return home with a blank page to show for a season's work, this most elaborate climbing party that ever set forth moved twelve miles north, started up Jonsong, 24,340-ft. brother of Kanchenjunga...