Word: angers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fiery Welshman in a brisk speech at Bristol said that Poincaré was guilty of " wicked distortion " and that he was "unscrewing the cylinders of carefully distilled hatred, ill-will, suspicion and anger among the nations." The statement he had made did not concern the devastated regions...
...open among them. Dean Maurice Mulvania suggested to President Morgan that the students be given a measure of self-government. President Morgan asked Dr. Mulvania to canvass the faculty for suggestions for a "University Consti-tution." When the suggestions were made public, they "kindled President Morgan's anger." Meanwhile, four professors asked the American Association of University Professors to investigate Professor Sprowls' dismissal. Then the University administration took a hand and catechized professors as to their opinions and activities in the Sprowls case. Six other dismissals followed, including those of the Dean of the Law School, Dean...
...Mount case", which, briefly, is that of a student trampled to death in a college rush, buried secretly by his classmates, and discovered long afterwards by the authorities, has achieved a tremendous amount of undesirable publicity. It is an incident which justified the righteous anger of the Chicago editor, although it scarcely seemed to justify his conclusion that most college undergraduates were "gilded youth--fantastic, megaphonic, and acrobatic; full of false importance, and indifferent to the future...
...policy cost France her interests in Egypt; he became involved in a religious dispute, which, if he had not fallen from power, might have had serious consequences; once he resigned a cabinet post in a fit of anger; in the war of 1870 he helped the Germans to win through hampering his own generals. Nevertheless, he did much useful work. After the 1870 debacle he reorganized the army and introduced conscription. He created the General Staff and the Supreme Council as it was during the Great War. As Minister of Public Works he constructed 2,000 miles of railway...
...Sistine Choir, and received such success and honor as come to few musicians. But a strange trouble came upon Don Lorenzo. He began to feel that all who came near him were hostile to him. He imagined at his triumphal concerts that the audiences were filled with anger against him, that their tumultous applause was ironical. This convinced him that his compositions were bad-that was why the people were aroused against him. He said he was going to rewrite all he had written. He had a large volume of manuscript composition. He hid this away jealously, and worked, rewriting...