Word: rage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early last month their irritation rose to a rage when the Guild sent out a new "declaration of cooperation" full of whopping additions to the original. Retailers who had agreed merely not to sell any dresses they knew to be copies in the upper price ranges were required not to sell any copies at all and to give the Guild's 40 professional shoppers authority to determine what was and what was not a copy. Department store managers either shook their heads or got hopping mad. Following the Strawbridge & Clothier incident war was openly declared...
...fall, a blow, a scare, a rage, a chill, writes Dr. Taussig, may cause spontaneous abortion. Spontaneous abortions may also result from defective ova, weakness of the placenta, nervous wombs, malformed pelvis, dietary deficiencies, endocrine disturbances. Half the women who suffer from typhoid fever, cholera, scarlet fever, smallpox, erysipelas, sleeping sickness and malaria during pregnancy involuntarily abort. Pneumonia is especially feticidal...
...candidates neither knew nor cared what the issues, if any, were. This astounding state of affairs existed despite the fact that there had been no Japanese election since 1932. In theory the poll last week should have settled the paramount issue of Eastern Asia, whether Japanese expansion is to rage on through China at staggering cost or whether the Japanese people disapprove the extravagant and risky militarism which has been the Japanese Government's main policy for the past four years. This central issue was so packed with dynamite-the politicians fearing that the militarists, if crossed, might sweep...
...given the coveted London post, held it for four years, resigned because the News considered his viewpoint had become too Anglicized. Back again in the U. S., with a 21-year career behind him, and no longer quite so "naïve and fresh and full of rage and energy" as he was, Negley Farson still looked forward with a keenly optimistic, amiable, but less rowdy...
...expected that earnest young music students would be on hand for his series, meticulously following each note of the score. Surprise was that ordinary concertgoers would catch the fever, that by last week when the cycle approached its halfway mark the Schnabel recitals had become a popular rage. Seldom have audiences been more attentive. There are pianists who play with more flash than Schnabel, who hammer out louder crescendos, make their pianissimos more consistently haunting. But few have been known to give so much substance to their music, to play with such clarity, such a grasp of structure. The many...