Word: rage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they were delighted when Fanny leaped upon this villain and clawed the collar off his neck. At the end, when Fanny slipped off to the country with her pure but honest well-beloved, interest waned. Bostonians had come to see Mary Garden do great and voluptuous acts of rage and excitement; satisfied in this desire, they decided that she had tilted a cracked mirror so that its faulty images could be forgotten as it caught and reflected her own glory. They came again to hear other singers sing better...
Vienna heard him first, then Berlin, Paris, London. The Steinways brought him to Manhattan in 1891. He played in the old Madison Square Garden Concert Hall but it would not hold the crowds, and Carnegie Hall was for the first time used for piano recitals. Paderewski became the rage from one end of the country to the other...
...daughters conduct, and humbly asks Julien to allow Louise to nurse her father for a few days. Julien consents. At home again, Louise learns that she was the victim of a ruse to separate her from her lover. She chafes at confinement until her father, beside, himself in the rage and disappointment, turns Louise out of his house, cursing all Paris for depriving him of his daughter...
...being sued right and left by their proprieters and are in danger of having their chattels thrown into the street. They have been confronting the Legal Aid Society with more woes than come from any other single source, and it is likely that the battle will contine to rage although the Board is making masterly efforts to pacify every one concerned...
...tipped over and he had been lugged ashore, Claire had the momentary pang of remorse it had been his intention to inspire. But because, on their subsequent encounter, he employed a term of callow reproach of which the effect upon Claire was wonderful and strange. "Out of her rage and pain and the hot pressure of old, old instincts and urges, intelligence was being born. For the first time in her life she had just had a thought...