Word: rage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Silver Dick's Rage...
...Joseph, Mo. hospital lay Silver Dick ill with typhoid and considerably nettled thereof when a green young interne attempted to minister to him. For days the young medico tried to please, but as he rushed into the room in answer to yells was immediately retreated by more bellows of rage and helplessness. You can well imagine the feelings of the young man then when he received from his first patient a $20 gold piece as Silver Dick left the hospital...
Ambassador Luther lunged across the cabin, snatched the paper from his subordinate's hand. His face was red with rage. His eyes blazed. Cried he: "Here, give me that statement! It's mine and I can read it myself. 'Diplomatic etiquet preventing foreign diplomats from touching upon political questions...
...bloodily took Schleswig away. For 50 years Schleswig and Holstein were both German. The Paris Peace Conference allowed Germany to keep Holstein and German Southern Schleswig. By the Versailles Treaty plebiscites were held in northern and central Schleswig. The Danish northern zone plumped for Denmark. To Denmark's rage & grief the central zone voted to stay German. Since then, both Slesvig Danes and Schleswig Prussians have looked covetously across the new border. Lately a new glitter has come into Prussian Nazi eyes. Last week Danes heard that Nazis planned an Easter visit to Danish Slesvig in full Nazi uniform...
Denmark's rage at this "impudence" was not softened by the fact that Denmark had ruled Greenland philanthropically at a loss. It could easily have made it pay but it has shut out all foreign immigration except for some 300 Danish cryolite miners. Its policy is to keep Greenland safe for the "kindhearted, trusting Eskimos." To keep Eskimos happy, Denmark now furiously claimed every foot of Greenland...