Word: angriest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notes the pine tree growing in granite near Buford, Wyo.-in the early days of the Union Pacific, railroad firemen saw the struggling tree, kept it alive by emptying buckets of water on it as the trains passed. It retells the story of Hugh Glass, angriest man in U. S. history, who got so mad when his companions left him for dead that he chased them through 1,500 miles of wilderness to get even. Mauled by a grizzly, Glass was abandoned in South Dakota, crawled 100 miles to the nearest fort, set out for Montana for revenge before...
...greatest modern American novel, perhaps the greatest single creative work this country has ever produced." It is not. But it is Steinbeck's best novel, i.e., his toughest and tenderest, his roughest written and most mellifluous, his most realistic and, in its ending, his most melodramatic, his angriest and most idyllic. It is "great" in the way that Uncle Tom's Cabin was great-because it is inspired propaganda, half tract, half human-interest story, emotionalizing a great theme...
...Auden, like her a zealous antifascist. At the risk of her life, she returned secretly to Germany to get some of her father's manuscripts. Last year she arrived in Manhattan, applied for U.S. citizenship. Today she is engaged in the same trade as her father. Her angriest book, School for Barbarians, with a preface by her father, was published last week.* Miss Mann's book is about Germany's children. Other investigators have reported what has happened under the Nazis to Germany's once-great educational system but none has reported so scathingly as Erika...
This touched off the House's angriest, most random debate of the year upon great issues. Pacifist George Lansbury, who recently talked with Adolf Hitler, seemed to fear the British lion was about to spring upon the German lamb. He wailed: "How many times will you crush the German people?" The Leipzig incident fired belligerent Sir Archibald Sinclair, M. P., to make a fiery speech, at the climax of which he cried: "Remember the Maine...
...already had a warning of his temper. Aboard his special train as it rolled up from the South day before, he had volunteered to newshawks the information that he was determined to press afresh the aims outlined in his Madison Square Garden speech last October. In that speech, angriest of his campaign, he had said that in his Second Administration he hoped that "the forces of selfishness and lust for power'' would "meet their master...