Word: gnashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wrecker of Cabinets. The bitterest years fast followed the happiest. Returning to Paris in the last days of fat Napoleon Ill's tottering empire, the Young Tiger was just in time to gnash impotent jaws as Bismarck's Prussians conquered with "blood and iron" at Sedan, then tramped on to Paris. The pomp, the swagger, the burning shame lit a blaze of hate in Clemenceau which nothing ever quenched. Bismarck, Wilhelm II, Stresemann?they were all anathema. "Stresemann was Bismarck's best pupil," growled the Tiger recently. "He has gotten everything for his country, while on our side everything...
...liberty are rife finds no echo from Mr. Robert H. Lowrie. "Is America so bad, after all?" he asks, in an article in the April Century Magazine, and happily finds that it isn't. To people who shudder at the somewhat quixotic actions of the American Legion, or gnash their teeth in impotent rage over book censorship, nothing could be more encouraging...
...many of them borrowed from the Odeon and Comedie. Some of the technique was borrowed from the U. S. The wolves were borrowed from Russia. From this assembly, a vigorous picture has developed? in spots a great picture?but one that will cause D. W. Griffith scarcely a grieving gnash...
...stand and gnash my teeth...