Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basement, where the fast & furious selling brings in upwards of $12,000,000 a year, scours the world's top stores for discontinued stock. Some 90% of its bargains are "seconds" of famous brands which it plugs by name...
...crackers were stale, so the little man with the bright eyes drew some women's heads on them. The proprietor of the Left Bank bistro in the Rue Mabillon was furious; he threw them to his frowsy dog, Peggy. When the artist left, a sad-faced patron said to the proprietor: "Those little crackers that Peggy ate were worth about fifty thousand francs apiece. That was Picasso...
...show's catalogue, Critic MacKinley Helm described how he had watched Marin turn a sunset into a painting. Wrote Helm: "With his right hand [Marin] roughed in with black crayon the three elements of the picture-sky, headland and bay; and laid on the color with furious strokes of a half-inch brush in his left hand. His hands fought each other over the paper. . . . 'See that blue spot out there?' Marin said, dabbing impatiently. . . . 'You can't put it on paper-so you just put down a color that the paper will like...
...Canada has been, is, and may be in the future, more fortunate than the United States. ... It seems that nothing but catastrophe can check the furious progress of Americans into a still more bleak and dangerous desert of technology than they have reached now. The very vastness of the apparatus their genius has created stands over them like a strange and terrible master. Every man, as Sophocles said years ago, loves what he has made himself. Canadians have as yet fallen in love with no such Frankenstein. And, as a resuit of this, our future is more clearly...
...junketeers missed the overture. The furious bugling, the quick rattle of gunfire, the bomb burst at dawn at Maracay Airport barely disturbed them as they slept nearby in the sprawling Hotel Jardin. To the New York Daily News's John O'Donnell, the bomb sounded like a distant door slam. He went back to sleep...