Word: angers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tree" Mr. McLane retells the famous story of Christ's anger from the Fig Tree's point of view, as it were. No interpretation can ever rob the legend of its unfairness and its pettiness, and those who accept it must do so with blinded or winking eyes. Mr. McLane is the first to reject it openly and convincingly, but of course the logical answer to his poem is that the legend from its very incompatibility is patently a lie, and reproach should be directed not against the victim but against the fabricators of it. As a piece...
...higher object than to make mischief between kindred peoples and financial profit out of a shameful traffic in racial and national prejudices and antipathies. They will reap at best a poor harvest if Canada, Great Britain and the other British nations never forget that he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty. The Montreal Star
...handling of it: still there is as yet no adequate reason for raising such a hue and cry. Until the time for action arrives, it is worse than useless to parade our grievances in public. The result is only too likely to be the rekindling of the flames of anger and stubbornness in both Japan and America--names which will prevent any peaceable settlement of the problem. If legislation may prove to be the remedy, why stir up excitement and antagonism by the cry of "wolf, wolf!"? Mr. Lodge is carrying a "big stick," but he is not walking softly...
...Lady Elizabeth Galton, an instantaneous magnet for "Willie"'s attentions, is a self-possessed, stately heroine. She is most attractive in the truly British, undemonstrative manner. Arthur Elliott does a rare piece of character acting as the tyrannical paternal head of the household, although at times his apoplectic anger seems a trifle overdone...
...Anti-Prohibition Campaign Council of Edinburgh is evidently angry, Scotch anger is decidedly dour. The fact that prohibition is approved as a wise measure by the great majority of the American people does not count among the lairds of the glass, who hold fast to the old gospel of the Scotch lady, remonstrated with for her evident condition, who proclaimed: "Better have a wee drappie too much than waste the Lord's mercies." -Boston Transcript...