Word: spluttered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first squadron of the Italian Battle Fleet was lying quietly at anchor with no immediate plans when an excited radio operator rushed into the presence of Admiral Cantu and three Rear Admirals who were swapping yarns aboard his flagship. Instantly Admiral Cantu began to splutter orders. The Rear Admirals were piped off to their ships, engine room lights winked full speed ahead and Italy's first squadron tore for the mountain-jabbed coast of King Zog's Albania...
...hours before the Manhattan Press got wind of the Sands Point fracas. By that time Senator Long was in Milwaukee to address the convening Veterans of Foreign Wars. When a New York Sun reporter called the Senator by long distance telephone for his version of what happened, an angry splutter of unprintable profanity came over the wire. Finally from his Milwaukee hotel the Louisiana "Kingfish" issued a statement. Excerpts...