Word: rage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening. Her triumph was so overwhelming that it aroused the jealousy of fair countesses and members of the social set who expended lavish sums on their toilettes for the evening. Journalists flocked about her, cabled abroad the news of her mauve hair. Next day pastel locks were the rage. Madame Charlotte liked hers so well on second thought that she decided to keep them so always...
Royal Displeasure. Livid with rage, Monsignor Ladeuze hired more huskies, called out the whole police force of Louvain, and got a plaster of paris replica of his smashed stones into place, while Architect Warren left disgustedly for Paris. Short-lived, however, was the Rector's triumph. Next day he received a message from His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Leopold of the Belgians, Duke of Brabant, who regretted that, under the circumstances, no member of the Royal Family would be present for the dedication of the new Library scheduled for July...
...this, the male member of team No. 7 rushed at Milton D. Crandall, crying with rage and threatening him with fists. He had been insulted, he cried, and would go across the river. The crowd cheered him on, an angry knot of persons gathered on the dance floor, a call for police reserves was issued, while Mr. Crandall, dodging away from the enraged dancer, was booed, hissed and subjected to fruit-throwing. Five minutes later, it was announced that an injunction had been secured which would permit the marathon to continue 22 hours longer. Couple No. 7, despite their unruly...
...your issue of May 28, col. 1, p. 12, you say, "Steunenberg was the target for the miners' rage; in 1906 he was the target for a bullet that killed him." The facts are that a bomb was placed at the gate opening into the lawn of the Governor's home in Caldwell. When the Governor opened the gate he was literally blown up. Harry Orchard confessed to having placed the bomb and was sentenced to prison for life...
...people were watching the wild animals in the circus. Seven tigers, as docile as 30-year-old cab-horses, were lounging and limping around a ring where a woman stood, telling them nonchalantly when to stop and go. One lazy, spavined creature growled at the woman with perfunctory rage. Then he and another tiger pounced upon her and lay on top of her biting the woman with their yellow teeth and slapping her with huge limber paws that left two-inch grooves on her arms and bloody ruts across her face. Almost before the people in the audience had time...