Word: storming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resolution was passed with the words "as soon as warranted" still in it. Next day, Mr. Mitchell continued to storm and shout until they changed the phrase to "as soon as possible." So sharply did Mr. Mitchell attack those in charge of U. S. national defense that, after the resolution was passed in its unmitchellian form, his remarks had to be removed from the record...
...Vancouver, safely unloaded from the N. Y. K.'s* Paris Marn. Safely it was stored in an 18-car train of the Canadian Pacific-$6,000,000 of silk. The world first heard of it when $1,500,000 of it (five car loads) lay wrecked and storm-strewn in the valley of Frazer River, only 100 miles east of Vancouver. Cause: derailment or broken car wheel. And the operators of the Canadian Pacific- than which no railroad is better known throughout the world-how were they to feel? They felt the more distressed because of their amazing record...
...same time an ugly storm gathered its forces of wind and rain, and, shrieking, screaming behind the white-topped sea mountains, lashed itself into tortuous fury and vent its wrath on this same island of Kiushiu...
Houses collapsed and the litter they made was hurled over the land for miles. Heavy rains beat down. Rivers and streams rose seething, overflowing their banks and rushing through the already flattened rice fields. Whipped into angry eddies by the driving storm, the flood carried whole houses with...
...donning his hat and leaving his Mrs. alone for the night. It never fails. When three homes have been broken up by the three wives' passionately ogling and cuddling a little Pekinese dog, "Baby Cyclone" (so called because he was born in a storm), this simple "hat trick" succeeds in restoring the husbands to proper importance and the dog to the kennel...