Word: rage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strait of Georgia has hugged its reputation as "a little bit of England on the shores of the Pacific." In 1885, when the Canadian Pacific Railway reached the coast, insular Victoria looked down on the brawling mill town of Gastown, named for a saloonkeeper, "Gassy Jack" Deighton. To the rage of Victoria's aristocrats, Canadian Pacific officials renamed Gastown Vancouver. As the world's trade with Japan and China increased and the Panama Canal made possible water shipment of Canadian wheat, Vancouver's magnificent harbor became a key port. Today some of the West Coast...
...their round-robin resolution for absolute neutrality (TIME, Aug. 17). Benito Mussolini declared that Italy could adhere to it only if all powers signatory to it would bind themselves not only to refuse "State aid" to Spain but to prevent "private aid" as well from reaching Madrid. In a rage at this, some 30 Red and Pink Deputies and Senators of France announced that they had each privately contributed 50 francs ($3.30) to aid the Spanish Government, appealed for as many more private contributions as they could get and defied Socialist Premier Blum to do anything about it. With numerous...
Democrat Reed, rheumatic and weak from age (74) and rage, had a speech in his system for which he needed an audience. Democrat Ely had a hope in his bosom that the meeting might openly come out for Landon. The emotional needs of the others were vague but earnest, so earnest that, although in the sumptuous suite where they were assembled a private bar had been provided, they were too busy to patronize...
...fortified his charge by reading the dictionary definition of "insurrection" and comparing C. I. O.'s Chairman John L. Lewis to Mussolini, "the unscrupulous and arrogant dictator of whom it has been said he suffers at times from a rush of blood to the head, an extravagant rage, a surge of destructive wilfulness. Like a volcano he spouts flame and burning lava, spreading poisonous gases over the countryside...
...question of permitting Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles (TIME, July 6). Last week at Montreux an astonishing scene occurred as Rumania's greatest statesman, Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu, who did more than anyone else to help Britain line the Balkans up for Sanctions, suddenly blew up in rage at what he loudly called the British Government's "two-faced attitude...