Word: ire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...budget estimates for the Department of the Interior for next year, and Senator Pittman allowed the deficiency bill to pass. Then he heard that the Appropriations Committee of the House, in reporting the Department of Interior supply bill, had stricken out the Spanish Springs project again. Again his ire was aroused. He announced that the Interior supply bill would never pass the Senate unless Spanish Springs were included, and prepared to renew his fight...
...there, loudly protesting that per capita taxation was considerably higher than in Britain and France and that more money was being spent on the Army than on education. Then someone suggested that the country should call in an international financial controller.? Raucous ranting filled the Assembly; indignation, even ire, was on every side; the Deputies had considered the suggestion an insult to their national sovereignty...
...control for a month, in order to let public ire subside...
...days back in the fabulous forties when manuals on correct behavior advised their readers in all seriousness to "omit the annoying foreign) fashion of taking water into your mouth [when finger bowls were passed], rinsing and gargling it around, and them spitting it back into the glass"; and, ire another place: "The rising generation of elegants in America are particularly requested to observe that, in polished! society, it is not quite comme il faut for gentlemen to blow their noses with their fingers, especially when in the street? a practise infinitely more common than refined...
...Pair Captured After Chase in Narcotic Theft," "General Wood's Kin Three Days in Sea." It carries three snappy pages of sport news. Its foreign news (when it can be found) tells: "Ten Men Killed in Moroccan War," "Boy Worker Locked in Bank" (Eng.), "Priest's Auto in Accident" (Ire.), "Colonies Restless, Empire Shakes" (Eng.), "Ice Prevents Sailing" (Can.). It is vigorous in its editorials...