Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right to make his kind of pictures without studio interference was a long time coming for La Cava. Famed was his feud with the late Irving Thalberg. Accustomed to being consulted before each day's shooting, Thalberg was furious when his new director ignored his calls to counsel. When the irate producer arrived on the set, the director, warned of his coming, was placidly practicing golf shots while his actors rehearsed themselves. The conversation was brief...
London's Evening Standard last week pointedly quoted the man who led Britain to victory in World War I, David Lloyd George, on how he did it: "In this country we insisted, in the teeth of a furious outcry from staff officers and their friends, on retaining in the industrial side of warfare the men needful for equipping our forces with those mechanical aids and armaments which would avail to save their lives and ease their task." But in the last war there were a lot of Frenchmen to keep the Germans from crossing the Channel...
...obsessed with the gigantic destiny of this Hemisphere; is sure in his soul that in this time of crisis, in a terrible century, when the seas shrink and the Hemisphere grows, the U.S. must find its own vast place in world affairs. Thus he has worked with furious suavity to grapple the 20 Latin American nations to the U.S. with hooks of steel, loops of gold, the ever more important interchange of ideas and responsibilities. He is now close to a major triumph...
...Since the Russo-German campaign the Enlightener & Propagandist has manipulated a furious anti-Communist campaign in Denmark to force the Government to break diplomatic relations with Moscow. A Nazi-organized Danish Free Corps to fight Russia drew only 150 volunteers, but this was considered sufficient for enlightenment & propaganda. Hundreds of Danish Communists have been jailed, including Novelist Martin Andersen-Nexoe...
...Insisted a superior: "That taxi driver you ran this morning looks straight out of Sing Sing and you have him talking like Nicholas Murray Butler. Just put the words down as they come out of their mouths." Jimmy obeyed, not sparing a single dese, dem or dose. Posses of furious questionees stormed the News, and the management frantically ordered Jimmy back to word-painting...