Word: angers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many a Manhattan playgoer was reminded by the Bischoff girl's suicide of the plot of Five Star Final, the year's newspaper melodrama on Broadway. In that play, written in anger and bitterness by Louis Weitzenkorn (onetime managing editor of Macfadden's Evening Graphic), the managing editor of a New York tabloid undertakes to find out what has become of a famed courtesan of 20 years back, who had been acquitted of murder. The newshawks find her respectably married. Their screeching story breaks on the wedding day of the woman's daughter. Grief-stricken...
Mingled in the newsroom conversation were impulses of self-preservation and sentiment, also anger at Old Joe's inept sons who had not given their employes any warning, any chance to take the papers over and keep them running. Someone suggested that the employes band together now-surely the money could be found to save the Worlds from extinction and, worse, from chain journalism. The staff rallied swiftly. Like the foreword of doom on the preceding day, the call swept through the building, dispelling for the time the depression that hung there, bringing enthusiastic response from all departments. Executives...
...have caused world-wide privation, Unemployment, want, starvation, Trade and industry stagnation; You have caused humiliation, Hatred and recrimination, Anger and denunciation, Vehement expostulation, Armament, war preparation...
...Lobby in Manhattan, a slight, 19-year-old boy approached him. thrust out a paper and said: "Here's a summons for you." Then he dropped the paper at the fighter's feet. What happened then is told by him in a legal deposition: "Schmeling. his face working in anger, yelled at the top of his voice and then . . . grabbed the seat of my trousers and violently rushed me to the stairway, shaking me in all directions as he did so. ... [There he] violently and outrageously battered me and lifted me bodily and hurled me down the 25 marble steps...
...Frumkin), famed Brooklyn bullfighter, returned last week to Mexico City, scene of his first taurine exploits, failed to win official recognition as a full Matador de Toros.* Luck was against him. The three bulls which he drew from the corral were spiritless. They died more in sorrow than in anger, gave him small chance to display his talents. More successful was another novillero, a handsome 19-year-old boy billed as Liceaga. Liceaga's first bull was small but excessively pugnacious. Stepping in the ring he displayed great showmanship by flourishing his muleta, dedicating the bull and throwing...