Word: angers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. The most notable of the caricatures, Aesthete: Model 1924, first published in the maiden issue of The American Mercury, gave Mr. Boyd the intense satisfaction of stirring to obscene and frenzied anger a whole Greenwich Village nestful of half-baked literati whose baseless pretensions to significance it is Mr. Boyd's spirited but impersonal mission in life to deny. The Yeats, Moore and Stephens portraits, while of small dimensions, are of a purity which few contemporary critics could well equal. Add to these considerations the facts that Mr. Boyd is the thorough master of several languages, both dead...
Police were summoned to the Parliament, entered the debating chamber, seized 14 members of the Opposition, threw them out on the street. Then meetings of indignation were held all over the city. Anger grew; and the city became alive with people running this way and that. The Government ordered out the Army to occupy the beautiful Royal Castle, on the right bank of the Danube, and all the State buildings. The Bethlen regime, so used to wobbling, wobbled again...
...dangerous "dissensions" that marred the Games! Far from being "mischieyous", such experiences, if regarded in the proper and unsensational light, will even aid in international appreciation of character and feeling. A man-or a nation-becomes very little of an enigma once you have seen him in anger...
...meeting reported Bulgaria crying for American schools and social help; Turkey officially opposed to any form of foreign penetration, but unofficially craving the civilizing influence of the missionary; Japan calmed in her anger by the missionaries, who explained that the Japanese Exclusion Act passed by the U. S. is not because of Christianity but in spite of it; scores of other countries seeking the aid that the Church can give...
...since Jan. 1, 1924.* Some newspapers had anticipated this opportunity, others had to decide speedily upon their conduct toward the luscious, but alarming, vegetable. Besides the ambiguity of the law, the papers had to consider the reactions of their readers and the dictates of policy. Would curiosity overpower the anger of the individual at seeing the private affairs of himself and his neighbor thus laid bare? Would public opinion swing against the publicity and regard it as excessively bad taste? What did one's political affiliations demand?to publish or not to publish? Of Republicans, not to. Of anti-Republicans...