Word: rage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Jacob Ruppert of the New York Yankees made Judge Fuchs a present of Babe Ruth. Dazzled momentarily by what he mistook for good fortune, Judge Fuchs soon learned that shrewd Colonel Ruppert had merely passed on his most perplexing problem. In June Ruth left the Braves in a rage because he had been refused permission to attend a party on board the Normandie. Last fortnight President Fuchs handed over his stock to Vice President Charles Francis Adams* and resigned. It looked as if the Braves would soon have to enjoy a miracle or go out of business. Last week...
...first morning, after having been awakened too early and refused his customary black coffee, he was so angry that he forgot about being a drunkard, so exhausted and stimulated by rage he did not miss his usual morning half tumbler of Scotch. Thus the cure began. After he had bawled out doctors, nurses and the world in general, calling for a padded cell as preferable to modern scientific, heartless hypocrisy, another patient told him quietly: "Say, fellow, you've got it all wrong. You don't tell them. They tell you." Once he had accepted its concealed...
Bandmaster Metz's rousing tune, in ragtime which was then becoming the rage, became the theme song of the Spanish-American War a dozen years later. Theodore Roosevelt, says Theodore Metz. took a baton and led Metz's band through A Hot Time. Also, with typical Roosevelt enthusiasm, the President of the U. S. exclaimed: "I'm proud to shake the hand of the man who wrote the song that stirred the nation...
...prime indicator of better business lately is a waning interest in day-to-day Washington news, a rising interest in Business itself. Most U. S. businessmen still damn the New Deal as freely as ever-but not in impotent rage. Less than a year ago they were hysterically predicting the doom of the profit system. Now they ease their minds with forthright opposition to White House policies, count on the courts to sustain their objections and devote more thought to making and selling goods. But the most soothing influence on jittery business nerves has been profits...
...that her gruff husband had painfully saved, all for Peter's sake. Then Peter was expelled from college. On the same day that she heard the news. Mrs. Fury learned that another son had been hurt at sea. but she scarcely thought of her injured boy in her rage and panic, bewilderment and shame, at Peter's shabby failure...