Word: rage
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Still complaints come in that students are crowded out of Professor Moore's lectures by the inconsiderate army of Cambridge men and women. If these people, so ready to rage and roar at any disturbance of their piece by students, cannot be managed by the ordinary methods, officials of some sort should be provided to keep them out of the reserved sections...
Beethoven's fifth Symphony is undoubtedly the finest of them all. Berlioz says it is the first where Beethoven gave free rein to his imagination and rejected all foreign aid, showing the development of his most individual mind. "His secret sorrows, his fits of rage or depression. his visions by night and his dreams of enthusiasm by day form the subject...
When the town fell, he withdrew to his deanship at Ireland, embraced the Irish cause, and hurled her rage and wrongs against England. It was at this time that his "Gulliver's Travels" appeared. - beautiful, vivacious, intense in realization and grotesque in combination. Yet, though his best-known work, it is not his most meritorious nor his worst representative...
...thing, the poet's wife writes to her unknown admirer that she loves her husband and is faithful to him and hates the "namby-tamby verses which have been sent her. Dr. Jekyll, the husband, is complacent on learning the truth; but Mr. Hyde, the poet, is frantic with rage at the lack of appreciation of his poetical power. The story is told cleverly...
...make a special point of being posted on all the newest "fads" in men's clothes. Several new styles that we are now introducing, are the rage in London. We carry special lines of the hand-made homespuns, whip-cords, and covert-cloths. We have the largest student trade of any fine tailors in the city, and make only the best work...