Word: angers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decline in the celebrated sense of humor. But there is a plague of touchiness. The lot of the humorous writer is an increasingly hard one. If we are merely mild and agreeable the critics cry at us: 'Have you nothing to say? Have you no fierceness, no anger, no satire?' They little know, Whenever we do say anything, it is considered propaganda, or else a breach of taste...
...good Lampoon, even though It whacks a victim that will not whack back. Neither the CRIMSON nor this reviewer has ever encouraged the Lampoon to show too much flerceness and anger and satire...
...Bridal Door of fashionable St. Thomas he placed two lovers' knots in Gothic tracery, one of them cleverly modeled to reveal a dollar sign. Great was the resulting furor. Sedate parishioners still deny that the sign is there. Architect Goodhue was mercurial, head strong, prone to sudden anger but fundamentally affectionate, modest, shy. His beliefs were unorthodox, his moral scruples of painful intensity. His ashes now rest in a magnificent tomb in the Chapel of the Intercession. On the surface carved in bas-relief by Lee Lawrie is his image lying in state like the images above the tombs...
...anger was only simulated; no one enjoyed the joke better than General Neville. That night he twitted doughboy General Ely on the front-line valor of his troops...
...very bath tub in which the great Marat was stabbed by Charlotte Corday. This new fad of Americans no longer to confine themselves to purely artistic objects and to enter the field of historic memorials has caused the fellow countrymen of Watteau and Monet to rise in righteous anger to defend their national treasures. At present, their efforts have taken the form of a million dollar law suit against the gentleman of the United States...