Word: rage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibit. Artist Arno is a social satirist. Frothier, less pungent than such satirists as Beerbohm and Bateman, he nevertheless makes sprightly comments on violations of taste and decorum. He lies in wait for those moments when civilized people burst through their shimmering camouflage of gentlity and blatantly expose rage, sex, silliness...
...appears that the incident with which Author Sinclair herein expresses his rage actually occurred in San Pedro, Calif., in 1923. Strikers were imprisoned and when imprisoned they were compelled to stop singing their "wobbly" songs. By sentimentalizing this repression, and by causing his hero, Red Adams, to die in solitary confinement after dreaming dementedly of the scenes of his life, Author Sinclair has concocted a tract which will bring cheers only from those who agree with...
...your issue of Oct. 29 at page 9, the following statement appears: "Of pique in politics the historic example is Senator Hiram Johnson's rage at Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 for not handshaking "him in San Francisco. The 1916 election was so close that Mr. Hughes has always been said to have lost it by that one handshake...
...rage over the result on the part of the reactionary element of the party in California knew no bounds. They realized that in their efforts to defeat Governor Johnson for the senatorship, and to use Mr. Hughes against him, they had only defeated Mr. Hughes, for Governor Johnson was elected U. S. Senator by a large majority, while Hughes failed to carry the state...
...prospering vastly, not only on account of major U. S. oil and fruit developments (see Map), but because the taste of Americans is rapidly turning from strong coffee to mild-the kind grown in Colombia, whereas stronger brands come from Brazil. The popularity of platinum and the present Parisian rage for emeralds are also potent prosperity factors, for Colombia is the largest producer of the white metal and the green stone. France is less than half as great as Colombia, in area; New York City is only slightly less in population...