Word: glared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They were late. Ignoring a strict Salzburg rule, the lean old Maharaja & friend pushed by a doorkeeper, swept down the aisle to their seats in the first row. Toscanini, who had lifted his baton to begin the last movement of a Mozart symphony, heard the commotion, turned around to glare, bowed ironically, growled: "Well, I can wait." The sympathetic audience broke into loud cheers which for a moment the flustered Maharaja seemed to take as a personal ovation. Then the flashing-eyed Maestro turned back, flung his orchestra into the Mozart, whirled them through it at angry top speed...
...shattered plane lay on its back in two feet of water, its right wing smashed, its engine crushed back into the cockpit. Pinned inside was the body of Wiley Post. Someone found a flashlight in the cabin, outlined the wreckage in its small glare. Finally Eskimo villagers pried the ship apart, got Post's body out. A shattered wrist watch had stopped...
...first time. About the same time the Bureau took command of another sector with the passage of an act enabling it to chase, catch and convict national bank robbers. With the passage of these laws the Federal Bureau of Investigation burst upon the national consciousness with the terrifying red glare of a ''Tommy" gun's tracer bullet...
Lying on his cot in the white glare, Anacleto was suddenly terrified to hear, softly, susurringly, as if from the Beyond, the voice of his dead friend. "Tit me mataste, Anacleto," came the spectral murmur. "You killed me. I am Areo's ghost. You had better confess, Anacleto. You killed me. . . ." Frenzied, bewildered, Anacleto stood it two days, two nights. Then he leaped up screaming: "I'm guilty! I'm guilty! I'm guilty!" A police stenographer rushed in and got a full confession...
...James Paul ("Jimmy") Warburg stepped into the glare of the New Deal not long after he was made vice chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co. in 1932. The sharp-witted son of the late great Paul Moritz Warburg stood close to President Roosevelt's financial ear in those first dazzling days, changed sides at the London Economic Conference in 1933, has since devoted his energies to a liberal and enlightened presentation of the case against the New Deal. Thanking his directors for tolerating his long and frequent absences from his desk at No. 40 Wall St.. Jimmy...