Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dingy third-floor offices, she works in a nook fenced off by burlap screens. At first mail was skimpy and other Post employes wrote letters on order, for her to answer. Now she gets anywhere from ten to 100-odd letters a day, from readers willing to risk a furious answer to get their problems (anonymously) into print...
...deluded . . . excited . . . ridiculous . . . wild . . . fanatical old man," Ponsonby communicated her views to the Prime Minister in a letter so gracious that Mr. Gladstone was quite pleased. When a general informed the Queen of an African victory but ventured to suggest further military reforms, Ponsonby reworded the Queen's furious reply into compliments on the victory (and a paragraph covering the unhappy gaff...
Thus the glee with which the furious little fringe of isolationists seized on the Senatorial remarks as anti-Allied was as misplaced as was the Administration's feeble efforts to keep the lid on their criticisms, or as beside the point as the shock felt in London...
Chesterton's resistance to the common confusion of greatness with bigness and worldly importance was shared by his brilliant older friend, Historian Hilaire Belloc. Bernard Shaw transformed the two men into a single mythical creature called "The Chesterbelloc"-intellectual Siamese twins who waged furious war against those who preferred a recklessly expanding future to a return to a smaller, intenser way of life. The Chesterbelloc opposed votes for women. "Twenty million young women," wrote Chesterton. "rose to their feet with the cry We will not be dictated to: and proceeded to become stenographers...
...George Byrne) to fill out his vaudeville act. Afterward the pair started hoofing through the hinterland. In a shabby theater in New Castle, Ind. came the turning point of Hope's career. He was asked to announce the next week's vaudeville bill, gagged the assignment to furious applause, turned monologuist on the spot. As a "single" with a flip, fast delivery, he landed a one-week job in a Chicago variety theater, stayed six months. From then on "one triumph led to another and I soon found myself only $4,000 in debt...