Word: anger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guest-to-be, Jane Monroe is president of the Club Mannequin, a group of Boston models which was roused to vociferous anger by the 'Poon's invitation to Hollywood actress Marjorie Woodworth to their frolic when so many beautiful girls were hanging around Boston...
...longer proposes to risk his life for the upper classes. His arguments, neither politically rigid nor in any sense pacifist, are extraordinarily hot stuff to serve up in wartime. He does not persist in his desertion; but his change of heart is not so solidly developed as his anger. Hence This Above All, though full of provocative data, is in the long run a disappointment. For Eric Knight merely mutters some phrases about the wisdom of the heart and a need for faith, dodges the whole crisis by bumping off his hero, gives his pregnant heroine a tag line about...
More juice, by my porringer, and or anger! There are few creatures on earth more manly than the diapered hero of McCord's Perambulator Poems. Ogden Nash writes: The interest I take in my neighbor's nursery Would have to grow, to be even cursory, And I would that performing sons and nephews Were carted away with the daily refuse...
...that the social achievements of the human race are so far behind its technical development. He studies this social lag in the personality of a widower, Dr. Axton Talley (Philip Merivale), who is a brilliant surgeon of bodies but scarcely even aware of emotional anatomy. He has nothing but anger for his daughter's adolescent radicalism, nothing but contempt for his son's inability to stomach the medical school dissecting room. When the doctor gets engaged to a poetess (Ina Claire) she leads him into abortive attempts to approach his children. But finally his inability to move...
Around the town hall of suburban Saint-Denis swirled a crowd of clamorous Parisian mothers one day last week. Voices cracking, beet-faced with anger, recklessly hoisting their hungry, squalling children aloft, the rioters screamed for milk. In suburban Brunoy and Suresnes more mobs gathered. Excitement mounted. Rocks flew...