Word: ire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convention which suggests prison as the proper place for him who would denasalize an officer of the law is not purely Italian. Nose punching, even in democratic America, is seldom without a legal postlude. Truly the affair does arouse one's ire when one realizes how unsportsmanlike the officer must have been. But to misquote a certain British actor, "Aren't they...
Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They ire selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to or corrective of news previously published in TIME...
...this dream not comparable to the Vatican's ideal of the Kingdom of Christ? Down came the Cardinal's eyebrows into a deep frown, and ire flashed from the darkness. "How dare you make that comparison?" he thundered: "The idea of Christ as King is as old as the Christian world. Empires have passed and others will pass and be forgotten, but the Kingdom of Christ will live...
...issue of TIME, on p. 27, you tell about a sick child in Montevideo and say "It died." Now a child is either a "he" or a "she" and any parent will agree with me that nothing raises said parent's ire like having his child called an "it." If you do not know the sex of a child when relating an incident, it would be perfectly permissible to repeat the words "the child" or else say "he," for that pronoun is often used to cover both sexes. I am a constant reader of TIME and like it very...
...SENATE AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS - Henry Cabot Lodge - Scribner's ($4). The late Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee telling a story that arouses the ire of Wilsonians...