Word: ire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Good faith indeed!" she has said with honest English ire. "My husband is deeply, passionately sincere. He believes in his disarmament plan, and he offered it with all his heart...
Chairman? Chairman? As the delegates left Baden-Baden, New York's Jackson Eli Reynolds, though he had served as Chairman of the Conference with brilliant, driving power, was not mentioned as prospective Chairman of the Bank. Taciturn in the extreme with correspondents, he had earned their ire. He would not even give out the text of the Statutes, forced them to get it from Germany's offish Schacht, usually the closest oyster at any conference. Perhaps in irritation the newshawks made little of the fact that Mr. Reynolds went straight from Baden-Baden to Paris for a conference with representatives...
...staff, the book falls short of the mark, and this despite the inclusion of various little novelties, the use of actual newspaper heads at the top of each page, the running together of several words in the foreign manner, and the common use of such perfectly good nouns as "ire" and "war" as verbs...
...Pompous, perennially frock-coated Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks incurred the ire of Her Majesty the Queen-Empress, last week, and received a rebuke from the London Times...
...ire melted. "So you play? We must have the derelict repaired, and then you shall come whenever you feel in the mood. . . ." That was the beginning of studies which made of young O'Conrrell an accomplished composer, whose settings of religious music, even in large orchestral arrangements, are still played...