Word: ire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, a good wind which blows no one any ill. When a certain group of gentlemen in Washington heard of the Barton-Coolidge heart-to-heart they threw into the air, not their hats, but grim imprecations. They held an indignation meeting last week and long before their ire had begun to evaporate, composed a three-page letter to Mr. Coolidge, telling him, and asking him, this and that in language of a type which Presidents seldom encounter first hand. The vexed gentlemen were newsgatherers who had met twice a week with Mr. Coolidge for four years. All that time...
...Squelched with ire a Laborite proposal for adjournment only until Aug. 17 instead of Nov. 9, "because of the continued emergency arising from the continuance of the coal strike (TIME...
Baptist Norris with prodigious ire blasted the Modernists some time ago with a sentence, in scareheads on his Fundamentalist-Baptist Searchlight: "Judas Iscariot, when he betrayed his Lord with 'Hail, Master' on his lips, went and hung himself, but these modern Judases [Liberals] continue to occupy the pulpit and use the name of Christ and live off the money of orthodox people." Dr. Norris reached for a desk drawer. Pious Parson Norris was indicted in 1912 at Fort Worth for perjury and arson in connection with the burning of his church. Disciples did not desert him, rather increased...
Stiff Protest. Goaded by Tory ire, the Baldwin Government addressed a stiff protest to the authorities at Moscow last week complaining that the Anglo-Russian Trade Agreement of 1921 had been violated by the Soviet Government in despatching funds to the support of the British "general strike" (TIME, May 10 et seq.). No mention was made of funds now passing from Moscow to London? though £30,000 was thus added to the coal strikers' war chest last week?because the "coal strike" had not yet been officially declared "subversive" (as was the "general strike" but still retained the character...
Bets can of course be made on any subject, but in England the commonest form of betting is associated with the turf. Accordingly, the proposed 5% tax on betting of all sorts included in the new Churchill budget (TIME, May 3) roused the ire of Britons last week, chiefly because it will tend to raise the price of England's most popular pasteboard commodity: a betting ticket on the Derby, Grand National or other "turf classic." Within the House of Commons, notables waxed wrathful at daring, chubby "Winnie" Churchill, Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer...