Word: rage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British public has not yet grown used to the figures. Year ago the British Medical Association moved out of the building and the Government of Southern Rhodesia moved in. Immediately Rhodesian High Commissioner Stephen Martin Lanigan O'Keeffe tried to have the statues removed, to the rage of Sculptor Epstein and esthetes in general. Artist Richard Sickert resigned from the Royal Academy because that solemn body refused to sponsor a public appeal for the statues' preservation, and with all the hullabaloo the move to oust the statues was quietly dropped...
...army left, to retake Majorca. When the papers told of the Majorca expedition being withdrawn, mentioned Italian bombing planes, people in Iviza knew what was coming. One Sunday noon it came-four planes dropping bombs. Fifty-five (42 of them women and children, says Paul) were killed. In a rage of revenge, Government guards massacred their rebel prisoners. Paul went into Iviza next day to find out what was going on, saw scores of dead bodies on the floor of the prison. He recognized many of the faces. By that time he was ready to go. When a German destroyer...
...study the Soviet scheme. Leader Toledano returned first-class with the news that he had not been converted to Communism. But last week the news that Mexican Trotskyists were agitating to turn his oil strike into a general strike was enough to set him off into a Stalinist rage against "counterrevolutionary tactics...
...Speculator to Manhattan to weigh in at the Athletic Commission offices for the phantom fight, his hopes were disappointed. Instead of awarding the title to Schmeling, the Commission merely voted to fine Braddock and his manager $1,000 each, suspend the champion for an indefinite period. In such a rage that a scheduled radio talk in which he was to tell the public his side of the story had to be canceled as too violent, Pugilist Schmeling promptly sailed back to Germany. Boxing critics predicted the outcome: a bout between Schmeling and the winner of the Louis-Braddock fight (June...
...calm his jumping rage at what he considered the gratuitous insults of the British Government, the Duke tried violently mowing hay on the chateau grounds, soon gave it up to sip tea under the shade trees of the terrace...