Word: rage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suddenly raided and almost wrecked the office at Harbin, Manchuria of the new Soviet manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, Comrade Rudy. Excited Moscow saw in this raid the "sinister" hands of Washington and Wall Street, the right hand perhaps not knowing what the left doeth. Isvestia in rampant rage called the U. S. "the imperialist leader of all the nations now arrayed against...
Josef Suss. The revenge plot, which occurred so often in early drama, is no longer considered exciting stuff. For revenge is stimulated by rage and rage is too direct and elementary an emotion to interest modern playgoers. Therefore this handsomely apparelled drama about a rich Jew of Württemberg whose virginal daughter is driven to suicide by the approaches of a knavish Duke, and who subsequently causes the Duke's downfall by way of atonement, seems like mechanical puppetry. It is an adaptation by Ashley Dukes of episodes from Lion Feuchtwanger's potent novel Power (Jud Suss...
...dead professors, but leaves almost immediately, enraged with the pedantic stagnation of the place and bearing away with him the vivid daughter (Lynn Fontanne) of the great teacher. Having learned of the weak heart of her other suitor, a mighty footballer, Raphael has spurred the athlete's rage and brought about his death...