Word: rage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cool, the Fascist Commander whipped out his revolver, took careful aim, fired. A bullet sped, clipping a fragment out of the stone column behind which Communist Missiroli was hiding. Again the Fascist Commander took a careful bead, pulled the trigger. Communist Missiroli, with a cry of pain and rage, dropped dead...
Twelve tanks contained small Betta splendens, a velvety black- and-bluish fish from Siam, with a round tail and carmine iridescences. A mirror held in front of three-inch Betta splendens soon excites him to the violent pugnacity for which he is world-famed. Sometimes, in a fit of rage, he destroys his own mate...
...steals an enemy plane, wings his way toward his own camp. Meanwhile, his true friend, John Powell (Charles Rogers), hearing that Bruce has been shot down by the Germans, sallies forth, Achilles-like, to demolish Germania for its destruction of his Patroclus. His sputtering machine-gun bespeaks grim, relentless rage. Prussian planes careen downward, leaving swift trails of smoke. Sausage-shaped dirigibles collapse in flames, Armstrong in the German plane flies joyously toward his heroic friend but is not recognized. With volleys of oaths bursting from his mouth and volleys of bullets coursing from his gun, Powell shoots down...
...John Wesley came to Georgia. There he fell in love with 15-year-old Sophy Hopkey, made the saving of her soul his excuse for a prolonged and unculminated courtship. When she, tired of his reluctance to propose, married William Williamson, John Wesley flew into a silly and destructive rage. Not content to relinquish his inamorata, he pursued her with persecutions, driving her away from Holy Communion, questioning the legality of her marriage. At last, after she miscarried a child, her husband sued the man of God. Before the case was tried he left the colonies, returned to England with...
...hummers hummed not wantonly, not scurrilously, but with excellent reason. Sixty years ago Obadiah was the rage in London when that Capital was visited by King Faud's father, the late Khedive of Egypt, Ismail Pasha...