Word: rage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palestine. Jewish development of Palestine has weakened the downtrodden Arab farm workers to the feudal tyranny of their Arab masters, has raised wage and living standards in Palestine, introduced the eight-hour day, encouraged Arab trade-unions. Result: economic liberation of Arab farmers. At bottom the anti-Jewish rage of the Arab landowners, backed by their Bedouin cavalry hordes, was caused by this unexpected social upheaval. But the leaders are willing to compromise. Not so the sincere fanatic desert Arabs who follow them and are always ready for a new holy...
...troupes met in Denver, they battled it out with fists. To the musical instrument trade of the U. S. this was a godsend. The mandolin was something new to most people, and in the 1890's, heyday of parlor music, that wiry-sounding fretted instrument became the rage...
Since the French Senate consists mostly of wealthy greybeards, their rage at being sent five such bills by the Chamber of Deputies showed itself in rudeness to whomever they could snub. Normally a Premier entering the Senate through its lobby is handshaken by dozens of greybeards. Last week Senators pointedly cut M. Blum, greeted in silence his appeals to pass the bills, refused so much as to debate them until the following week...
...ready for the presses last week. Ryan the Prodigal never neglected to pay weekly visits to his old friend Chaplain Kingsley at Kingston. On one of these a friend asked him if he had been dyeing his hair, it seemed so much darker. Red Ryan flew into a towering rage. Only a few weeks ago an anonymous letter announced that Ryan the Prodigal was "robbing banks and running around with women." The good priest showed this to his friend, understood him to say that the letter was the work of "a hateful witch...
OSCAR WILDE DISCOVERS AMERICA- Lloyd Lewis and Henry Justin Smith- Harcourt, Brace ($4.50). In 1881 the inimitable musicomedies of Gilbert & Sullivan were all the rage on both sides of the Atlantic. Shrewd Producer D'Oyly Carte was planning to send the authorized version of his latest G. & S. operetta, Patience, on a U. S. tour. It was also his notion to send ahead, as unconscious pressagent, the notorious original of Patience's esthete hero, Oscar Wilde. Carte put the scheme to Oscar as a lecture tour, a mission to preach beauty to the barbarians. Oscar bit. Authors Lewis...