Word: rage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luxury of rage was recklessly indulged in, last week, by the big, pugnacious, florid statesman who guards the Empire's money bags, the Rt. Hon. Winston ("Winnie") Leonard Spencer Churchill...
...Treasury?savings perhaps sufficient to enable Mr. Churchill to face the voters at the forthcoming election with his budget not too precariously balanced. As his wishes were flouted by his own colleagues the Chancellor, seated grimly on the Treasury Bench, grew first pink and then red with rage, was seen to clench and unclench several times his large and sinewy hands...
...with possibilities for the disintegration of character. It exposes the combustibles at the springs of life. When a man witnesses the transformation of a human being from a state of poised serenity to one of maniacal possession: and stands face to face with the inexpressible fury of concentrated spiritual rage, it is inexpressibly brought home to him that the potentialities for destructive power within the human mind are immeasurable and as appalling as a cosmic cataclysm. But when one feels all these things and is conscious of them, it simply leads one onward, as all men are in some measure...
...newest rage in made-in-France toys is Massacre! and Parisians have also been buying carload shipments of a made-in-Germany toy called Les Moineaux Avares or "The Greedy Sparrows...
...said, "we were playing at the home of my cousin. I doubled a four diamond bid and the opponent took his ten tricks. Mr. Wood, because my double cost us a game, flew into a rage and struck...