Word: angers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to present standards, the acting is overdone; anger is portrayed by swelling of the bosom, stamping of the feet, and vigorous twirling of the moustache, which may be all right for the movies, but is strange to Harvard Square. In spite of that, however, Eisenstein's utilizing water scenes, like a mountain stream immediately after the breaking up of a log jam, the pounding of surf over a breakwater, or the moon rising through ships' rigging over the mist of motionless, oily seas, as symbolic of the feeling of the Russian peasantry, gives the picture an appeal...
...characterized as a "vicious action" by Senator Atlee Pomerene, erstwhile mentor of the relief organization. He argues that the publication was in the nature of an unwise and unnecessary sop to public curiosity, and might have succeeded in undoing all the good that the loans had achieved. The unequivocal anger of his remarks indicates that he had operated under the misapprehension that no transactions were to be divulged, and that he views the public statement in the nature of a personal betrayal...
...believe that the actual beneficiary banks were any weaker than their competitors, but merely that they may have been more influential. Such is not the stuff of which panics are made. Perhaps more significant, however, than the actual publication of lists of banks and figures is the quick anger of Senator Pomerene and the light it throws upon his philosophy of government...
...Biff Grimes. D. D. S. (Lloyd Nolan, an able new-comer). Stimulated by an old crony, a bottle of rye and innumerable repetitions of "in the good old summer time." Biff's imagination reaches sadly back to his youth in another little town. Nostalgia gives way to intemperate anger when he thinks of the injustices he received at the hands of rich Hugo Barnstead. The telephone rings. The affluent Mr. Barnstead is in the hotel just across the street, stricken with toothache. When he appears for treatment there is considerable doubt whether the angry Biff, gas cap in hand...
Looming Chamberlain. Londoners agreed that tall, hawk-nosed, black- haired Chancellor of the British Exchequer Neville Chamberlain loomed in the Empire's eye last week as a future Prime Minister because of his potent and dignified handling of the debt issue in the House of Commons where anger, much less hysteria, was never permitted to get the upper hand...