Word: rage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this month a hung jury caused the release of five islanders charged with the first rape. Fourteen thousand Army & Navy men on the island boiled with .rage. Fortnight ago a Japanese, Horace Ida, was seized by three carloads of sailors from the Pearl Harbor base, whisked across the island to the Pali precipice. After threats to throw him over the 1,207-ft. cliff, Ida was stripped, beaten with belt buckles and pistol butts, kicked and cuffed, left half-dead...
...often and loudly about the White House. President Roosevelt, primed, recognized the new order with ''indecent and unwise haste." When the Indianapolis News, backed by the New York World suggested that some of the $40,000,000 to be paid to French stockholders had gone elsewhere Roosevelt, white with rage, started his absurd libel suit under an act "to protect the harbor defenses . . . used by the U. S. from malicious injury." Pride in the canal later caused Roosevelt to declare: "I took Panama and let Congress debate." The virulent hatred of Roosevelt for Woodrow Wilson grew out of the fact...
...tenderness, using perhaps too often a pianissimo of exquisite softness. The rest of the evening was Lehar, Lehar cheered by an audience which refused to go home until it had heard "Dein ist meinganzes Herz" ("Thine Is My Heart Alone") from The Land of Smiles which Tauber made the rage last summer in London...
...Army, was home from his travels in Europe which included the witnessing of military maneuvers in France and in Jugoslavia. His tour aroused no great interest in the U. S.; few Americans knew about it, fewer cared. But the Italian Press attached great importance to it, finally exploded with rage last week because...
...American picture by a series of shots, but by dogging his footsteps with the camera. The second characteristic is a corollary of the first, the giving of extensive hysterical close-ups of physiognomies none too attractive, registering "emotion," what Dr. Cannon calls "Bodlly Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage." The third is a desire to show depth of motif and subtlety of handling by a series of obvious and eternally repeated symbolisms, such as flashes of a moving clock pendulum, burning candles, or lights being turned on or off to show the passage of time in a supposedly esoteric...