Word: angers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thin despair and a narrow, terrible enmity. At last, one afternoon, Emily came in to find her grandmother dead. Whether her mother had found the medicine which Mrs. Elliot had expected her to provide, could not be told. Perhaps she had discovered some drug to still the anger in that ancient twisted heart. Emily asked no questions. She looked at her mother with fury and fear; but whatever Mrs. Fletcher commanded, Emily accomplished...
When in 1924 France grew exasperated at the Gordian knot into which Germany was lying the matter of reparations, she solved the situation in traditional military fashion by ordering her troops to occupy the Ruhr. Other nations, less precipitate in action, shared her anger over the matter of post war settlements. The situation was rapidly becoming a crisis when Charles G. Dawes, Owen Young, and their associates were appointed by the Reparations Commission to draw up what has since been called the Dawes Plan for Reparations Payment. The Dawes plan is responsible for the present stabilization of German currency...
Benediction in Georgia is a dark room in a prison. Near a table at the left a man in a frock coat is standing with his arms stretched out toward convicts who are sitting along benches. There are faces of anger, or despair, or ennui, or terror. A Negro looks at the floor hard, as if he were trying to remember something that made him sad. He is wearing a chain around...
...last week, to his mingled anger, awe and pride, to the horror of persons who view with alarm the increased supervision of private life by Federal authority, and to the satisfaction of persons who like to think of the U. S. Government as "Uncle Sam," Eric H. Palmer Jr.'s license was suspended for 90 days by the Federal Radio Commission, whose chairman, Rear Admiral William Hannum Grubb Bullard, addressed Eric H. Palmer Jr. as follows...
...five touchdowns will be made by the Crimson-jerseyed hosts. I should like to see the score Harvard 20, Dartmouth 14, I suggested as much to the stars, but they refused to confirm my suggestion definitely. But even the stars don't lightly run afoul of a Forecast in anger, and I promise severe astronomical disturbances if they fail me this afternoon and give all those five touchdowns to the Big Green...