Word: angers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federal Reserve Board in Washington last week established 3½% as the rediscount rate for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and there was anger in Chicago...
There had been loud complainings, for example, when logical Mr. McAndrew announced that the teachers would not hold any more meetings of their union to discuss their hardships during the time for which they were paid to teach. There had been blushing and anger among the teachers when cheerful Mr. McAndrew invited the public to "sample" the teachers' work, by quizzing and examining a group of representative pupils on a public platform...
...Rain is Elmer Gantry described by a neighbor whose generosity and politeness, guarded by a sense of humor, have not been assassinated by anger or malice. No bit of raucous mimicry by Sinclair Lewis surpasses Dillwyn Parrish's subtly corrosive pictures of fleshy Fred Rain painting his bathroom while trying not to marry; fouling his straight young son's mind with a circumlocution on sex in flowers; preparing stuffy sermons in his smug study. Not "Old Jud" himself, the muscular college revivalist of Elmer Gantry, is more offensive than Fay Johnson, the Y.M.C.A. hearty of this book...
...first glance Dr. Straton sat bolt upright and Mrs. Straton who was holding the newspaper emitted sorrowful clucks. The-pastor's noseglasses slipped from his nose and he fumbled for them among the covers, retrieved them and put them in place. His eyes narrowed with anger as he looked at the picture...
...Walker does his best graphic writing when he talks about Poles, Hunyaks, "bohunks" in general. Again and again he stops his story to look at them, trying always to fit the horror and immensity of their tasks into some scheme. Shaking light from the furnaces illuminates the stupid, pitiful anger of their faces. Author Walker describes "the look of the woman's eyes whose husband fell into a steel ladle and was melted down a year later- they didn't tell her, she found out afterwards - into an ingot...