Word: ire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brown's testy ruling to stand . . . Neither is it the first Boston ban that has aroused America's ire...
...Times Critic Olin Downes. The Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson was equally dyspeptic; his evening at the Metropolitan Opera House reminded him of "the French chef who in serving a New England boiled dinner had carved the beets like roses and turned turnips into lilies . . ." The critics' ire and ulcers were aroused last week by the Met's new streamlined production of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, the wonderful old pair of operatic favorites...
Such a rugged individualist as Republican Ernest Weir was bound to draw the fire and ire of Philip Murray's C.I.O., the Roosevelt Administration and the National Labor Relations Board...
Through Red Tape. But the President's ire against Smith was nothing compared to the anger of the 22 correspondents on the trip. The dustup was over the newsbeat Smith had scored on the Wake meeting by breaking an agreement with his peers. At Wake, the correspondents had to share a single radio teletypewriter to Honolulu. As a result, they agreed to pool the first communiqué from the conference and send it as a joint dispatch to the three wire services, United Press, Associated Press and International News Service. When the communiqué-the only real news...
...fussy, proper old (77) President William Green. Lewis once denied that the A. F. of L. had any head at all; its neck, he said, "just haired over." Last week he let headless Bill Green have it again. The cause of his ire: Green's public promise that "Labor" would sign a no-strike pledge whenever the President asked...