Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between the wars the Club went its informal way reaching peaks of furious activity when it numbered men like Virgil Thomson '22 and Leonard Bernstein '39 in its midst and at other times lapsing into sociable lethargy. For a while many of the meetings were held in the home of Edward Ballantine '07, associate professor of Music and then moving spirit of the club...
...never one to tolerate arrogant nonsense as she shepherded her small relative through London's museums and theaters. Once when Lilibet tugged at her impatiently because there were crowds outside "waiting to see me," Granny Queen whisked the proud Princess home via the back door. One day when furious Lilibet was demanding a favor of her governess with the words "This is Royalty speaking," her mother reminded her gently: "Royalty has never been an excuse for bad manners...
...stately, 77-year-old royal oak of Latin American journalism. He had an old score to settle. In October 1945, just before Peron's two-day fall from power, La Prensa had thundered that the Government should be turned over to the Supreme Court. Furious, Juan Peron had replied: "I shall not permit La Prensa to shout the Government down." He has never forgotten. It would have been hard to forget, for La Prensa has been the oak around which much of Peron's opposition has rallied, perhaps without a full realization that it is in the midst...
Khachaturian: Gayne (pronounced "guy-nuh") Ballet Suite (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). The furious-paced, but sometimes silkily lush music for Khachaturian's ballet on Soviet collective farm life. The ballet, which is loud with the pounding rhythms of Armenian dances, won its 43-year-old Soviet-Armenian composer the Stalin Prize in 1942. Performance: excellent...
Horrified, Mrs. Hanowell protested to local radio stations-to no avail. She wrote sponsors and got no answer. Then she began to distribute petitions to "eliminate such programs." The petitions spread through Washington, she says, "like wildfire." By months of furious fanning, Mrs. Hanowell spread the blaze into 44 states, got 350,000 names on her petitions. Recently the state organizations incorporated into the National Council for Youth Entertainment, talked of erecting a building, of getting after comic books and mystery movies once radio's hash was settled...