Word: rage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house in Caen, embroidering on a piece of silk the question: "Shall I, shall I not?" A cool, gracious, studious maiden of 24, she was asking herself if she should assassinate Jean-Paul Marat, President of the Jacobins, diseased, crippled, doomed fanatic who called himself "the rage of the people." The mood of ecstasy that Charlotte de Corday, as a follower of Rousseau, had experienced when the Declaration of the Rights of Man was published had long since given way to disillusion, foreboding and a desire to act. To her, Jean-Paul Marat was as responsible as one man could...
...England in time to have their already complicated emotional patterns tangled further by the War. Alan and Kitty love each other. Gerald also loves Kitty. Consequently, when he suspects Alan of spending a night in less fastidiously chosen company just before they sail for France, he goes into a rage. The result of this "out there" is a dangerous assignment for Alan, from which he fails to return. When Gerald gets back to England, he learns that the girl with whom Alan spent the night was no ordinary wench but Kitty, in person, being gallantly informal. On the basis...
Sophie introduced tough, husky members of her old smuggling family into the Prince's household, obtained titles or good marriages for them, drove out the Prince's faithful old servants. She used her great strength to throw things around in her fits of rage, keeping the household in terror. She planted several of her lovers, all great, beefy, stalwart fellows, around the Prince, so that all his movements were reported to her. The aging de Condé, feeble, crippled, harried night & day, was nagged, abused, tormented, once appeared with a badly bruised eye, once screamed that Sophie...
...cover her intrigue with the Prince, she married, posing, with the Prince's aid, as his illegitimate daughter. The ruse was successful until in a fit of rage Sophie stupidly disclosed her deception to her husband and was expelled from court. She promptly set to work to get back in. Rebuffed by aristocrats who regarded her with loathing, she found an ally in Louis Philippe, then Duc d'Orleans, who wanted the Prince's wealth left to one of his sons. Brightest of Marjorie Bowen's witty characterizations is that of Louis Philippe, son of Egalite...
...worth of claims from landlords who had leased store space to McCrory. This put the Brothers Morrow in a position to negotiate a reorganization as one of McCrory's principal creditors. They offered a recapitalization scheme which last week filled the Special Master for McCrory with violent and vociferous rage...