Word: rage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Practicing for Weyler Sir: Your report on General Weyler's sickness (TIME April 14) was, of course, excellent, iou missed', however, one thing which it seems to me could be sufficient to throw the choleric old (92 not 91, years old) general into a fit ot rage that might carry him to -his grave, although that "double pneumonia, with some complications" could do him nothing to pay attention to. When Primo de Rivera's body was carried to Spain, just a few days after Weyler found him self sound and hale again, the people of old Madrid...
Four days later Prince Nicholas went motoring again but this time the law was in effect. Lupta and Taranismul printed not a word. Careening down Bucharest's Buzetis Street he caught the wife of one Major Georgescu neatly on his mudguard, tumbled her in the gutter. In rage. Major Georgescu smashed the car's window with his riding crop, then suddenly recognizing the Prince, stopped, saluted. Flushed with anger, Prince Nicholas ordered the Major to three weeks' house arrest. Major Georgescu's commanding officer, General Vavrescu. further ordered him to apologize to Prince Nicholas in person...
Often have ardent research workers rankled under the interference of trustees, directors, presidents who meddled with their work. It has been necessary for them to smother their rage, remain silent, when they have been restrained from teaching evolution, practicing vivisection, inquiring into sex tendencies...
...sporty dresser, he used to put on mourning when any of his own men fell in battle. He wore flashy diamonds, a rose in his lapel. The sight of photographers used to drive him into a profane rage. Legends grew up about him: that he traveled in an armored car, wore a bullet-proof vest. With every gang murder that occurred in Chicago, his name was automatically connected. But the police could never fasten upon him even the semblance of legal guilt...
...fine upstanding figure of a man is that of famed Wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko. What was his dismay and rage, not long ago, to observe beside his picture in the New York American, the picture of a beetle-browed gorilla with fangs like clothespins and nostrils like the mouthpiece of a telephone instrument...