Word: angers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unpretentious reflections on destiny and death, with flashes of warmly human or amusingly discordant scenes that the world offers for his attention. Cool and detached, the poems give little evidence of intellectual curiosity. Robert Fitzgerald can write vividly of boys playing marbles in a yard, speculating without passion or anger on their fates-one becoming a dealer in jewels and watches, another grown ruddy from "sunning in the South." He can interrupt these reflections with strange asides that suggest the unpredictable quality of his imagination: How earth pulls us and pulls the moon Our bones know casually...
...Japanese guns. Abruptly this scheme was spoiled by the Japanese Ambassador to China, grinning Mr. Akira Ariyoshi, who had a three-hour conversation with brisk little Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, after which the Chinese satraps of the five provinces figuratively thumbed their noses at General Doihara. When, with boiling anger, the General sputtered in Peiping at a local Chinese commander, hurling threats which would ordinarily have made him grovel, Chinese General Hsiao Chengying said with quiet, studied Oriental insolence that the five provinces had just received the strongest telegraphic orders from Nanking: "So if you want autonomy declared, General Doihara...
...suburb. The Burches let their son pose as a favor to their friend, Photographer Arthur Dailey of Evanston, Ill., who had received an order for "a photo of a healthy baby with lots of personality, crying as if its heart would break ... a cry of neglect and not of anger." Photographer Dailey worked for more than an hour to make happy Baby Burch feel neglected, finally succeeded by sending Mrs. Burch out of the room. So effective was the result that many a touched reader called Union Central agents to ask about the picture; and a woman in Memphis sobbed...
...cast you out utterly in your recent report of Herbert Hoover. . . . You say that "he is capable of at least one passion, that of anger ... he has been nursing a pair of first-string grudges . . ." (TIME...
Could the magnanimous and constructive engineer who dealt with Huns be given to anger? Could the one man who went between all the loosed war dogs of Europe and kept the trust of all, be unable to hold his own temper? Could the brilliant and tender Quaker who rebuilt human Belgium and France, who rebuilt and re-established the lives of the families of his late enemies, be an angry man? Could the untiring diplomatist and spiritual servant who never let one strand of his delicate relationships between militarists and nationalists and intriguers, drunk warlords and war-led, sadists, sentimentalists...