Word: ire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Passage of the Johnson Immigration Bill by the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) aroused the ire of the Japanese nation...
...Secretary Hughes prevailed on acting Governor Davidson of Texas to permit Mexican Government troops to traverse part of Texas in passing from one field of operations against the Rebels to another. The ticklishness of the situation is that Americans in Mexico or along the border may suffer if the ire of either faction is aroused. So far Mr. Hughes has supported the recognized Obregon Government; it is impossible to say how long the policy may be continued without arousing the active enmity of the Rebels...
...ire of the House of Zedlitz was aroused. Baron Eberhard von Zedlitz and Neukirch, second in command of the family, took it upon himself to denounce the Count as "ein Verräter an dem Kaiser (a traitor to the Kaiser), and his book to be an unworthy attack by an officer of the old imperial defense forces of the former War Lord." The Baron then struck him off the family roll and organizations connected with the old German Army followed suit by expelling him from their societies...
This vote was almost the inevitable result of that hostility toward the membership and actions of the Council, manifested at the mass meeting last Monday. The three Council actions which aroused undergraduate ire were the abolition of three time honored institutions, the Junior Prom, the Freshman restrictive customs, and the Flour Picture (the photograph of the first year men, in old clothes white with flour and eggs). The mass meeting on Monday condemned the abolition of the Freshman customs and the Flour Picture by 477 to 27 and 435 to 77, votes respectively. Moreover the Junior Prom was favored...
Mussolini, always against the Masons, has been drawing closer to the Catholic Party. He is becoming almost subservient to the Vatican. His policy of reintroducing religion, into the curriculum of the public schools as a favor to the Pope aroused the ire of the Masons. The Premier, mindful of the support of the Catholics, told the Masons: "Fascisti cannot at the same time serve the cause of Masonry and that of the Nation...