Word: ire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plainly the point of view of the particular individuals in "Three Soldiers" which has aroused the ire of your reviewer. How long since an artist has been compelled by any canon of literature to choose for his creatures only paragons of virtue? Have we not had cur war books from the point of view of those who gloried in the slaughter, the propaganda attempts to make war attractive, the sort of thing which is perfectly "safe" to issue in wartime, at least to commissioned officers? Shall we agree that these are greater works of art simply because they tell what...
...certain to run up against one or more of the apparently useless University rules. For, unfortunately, the University is far from being free from that "Red Tape" which is the usual concomitant of law and order. But there is one standing regulation that, every year, especially arouse the undergraduate ire because of its stupid inconsistency--this is the ruling that "not more than two men shall inhabit a college room...
...despite all the rules--or may be because of them--the students occasionally burst forth in unmistakable manifestations of youthful spirits. In 1768 four were expelled for bombarding the study of Mr. Willed, a tutor, with bricks. Also the graduating class of that year aroused the ire of the Royalists by refusing to graduate in British clothes--worn by all fashionable people in those days. They appeared in American homespun and American boots...