Word: furiousness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fiercest submarine attacks. Hunting in a pack, guided to a big convoy by air reconnaissance, the U-boats were said to have hit and sunk 16, perhaps 18 ships west of Ireland, including a merchant cruiser. With other losses from scattered attacks by bombers and U-boats, this furious assault, would shoot Britain's tonnage loss for the week far above 100,000 - if true...
...fine. Soon, with $1,000 from Publisher Russell Doubleday (who showed "astounding trustfulness"), Roberts rushed off to the cold discomforts of an Italian "palace" where, by "sitting at a desk, facing a blank wall," he wrote 2,200 words a day. Now & again he would storm out to take furious potshots with his .22 rifle at squirpling sparrows. When Arundel was finished in 1929, Novelist Roberts decided that "the life of a railroad track-worker or a lumberjack may often be easier." But he has been writing historical novels ever since...
...badly crippled that he could not walk. First Rhazes ordered the emir's best horse to be saddled and brought into the court yard. Rhazes gave the emir hot showers and a stiff drink. Then, brandishing a knife, he cursed his patient, threatened to kill him. Furious, the crippled man sprang to his feet. With his patient hot on his trail, the doctor leaped on the horse and escaped. From a safe distance, he sent an explanation: the patient's fiery temper had dissolved the already softened humors. No one knows whether he enclosed a bill...
Students, who were roomed and boarded by Mistress Eaton, in furious tones which have a familiar ring berated her for "ungutted mackeral" and "hasty pudding containing goat's dung." Unlike her successors, she frankly confessed deficiencies in the cuisine and explained that "the students and the swine have share and share alike...
...lately squired Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow. Active commander is Squadron Leader William Erwin Gibson Taylor, 35, formerly of the 5th Fighting Squadron, U. S. Naval Air Corps (aboard the carrier Lexington). He joined Britain's Fleet Air Arm last year, served on the carriers Argus, Furious, Glorious (sunk at Narvik). Most piquant Eagle name: Harry La Guardia of Hartford, Conn. (no kin to New York City's Mayor...