Word: rage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon "stank of Staviskery." Appointment of onetime Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, widely considered an Anthony Edenophile, was hailed as an anti-Fascist victory not only by Communists and Socialists, but also by Mme Geneviève Tabouis and her entourage of Leaguophile correspondents at Geneva. They were speechless with rage when Foreign Minister Flandin unexpectedly pledged himself to follow "the same policy as Laval in foreign affairs...
...Rockefeller had developed a sharp nose of her own for talent. Tramp ing through galleries, she has spotted many a promising newcomer. She was the first collector to buy a painting by an aged Pittsburgh housepainter named John Kane, who before his death in 1934 became the high-priced rage of the modern art world (TIME, June 3 et ante}. She was one of the first to buy from the eccentric Louis Eilshemius...
...said that The Deal or any other arrangement acceptable to Italy, Ethiopia and the League would not be opposed by Britons. This stand by popular young Captain Eden promised well for a peaceful solution, except that the personal antipathy between Eden and Mussolini and the wild anti-Eden rage to which Italians have been worked up, made his appointment the most inflammatory in which His Majesty's Government could indulge as they gracefully executed this week their leap from illogic to logic...
Last winter Virginia's Carter Glass, as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, found the Relief bill shot through with such befuddling phrases as "The President is authorized ... to make grants and/or loans and/or contracts." Flying into a fine rage, the peppery little Virginian marched out on the Senate floor, successfully defended his action in striking out "the idiotic expression 'and/or''; wherever it appeared in the bill. To his support Senator Glass summoned an impressive battery of opinion against "and/or...
Seventeen of the 79 singers are new this season and several of them richly deserved their appointments. Philadelphia's Dusolina Giannini has had great success in Germany and Austria. Australian Marjorie Lawrence has been a rage in Paris. Contralto Gertrud Wettergren is a favorite in her native Sweden. Tenor Charles Kullman (Yale, 1924) has done well for himself in Europe, as has Soprano Susanne Fischer of Sutton, W. Va., who will make her Metropolitan debut as Madame Butterfly. Two of the newcomers are Belgians : Tenor René Maison and Basso Hubert Raidich. Baritone Carlo Morelli is a Chilean, Eduard...