Word: ire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operations in the pit caused much lifting of eyebrows among veteran traders. Their efforts to bull wheat to the peg price of $1.18 failed. When the price rose on dry weather reports, the Kelloggs sold Government wheat heavily, took a profit, helped to produce the next slump, arouse the ire of growers. This month Stabilization Corp. held its first annual meeting, reduced Mr. Kellogg to a vice president. Selected for president after a vain search among big grain men for a No. 1 executive was one George Sparks Milnor, an able, honest, small-scale miller of Alton...
When the service was over, Chief Chaplain Yates sped to his office, composed an answer, a rebuke. But as he wrote his ire diminished. He did nothing with what he had written. "I got my sentiments off my chest," he later explained, "and upon more sober reflection did not deem it necessary to add my voice to that of Dr. Pierce other than orally...
...quiet dinner chez Thomas William Lamont last week appropriately closed the brief U. S. visit of the most famed living native-born South African. No blackamoor is General Rt. Hon. Jan Christiaan Smuts. Indeed he roused the ire of U. S. blackamoors by alluding to their African ancestors and relatives as "the most patient of all animals" (TIME, Jan. 20). But Europeans will not be angry at what Africa's slim* Smuts said of Europe last week, just before he sailed on the Ile de France. Said...