Word: rage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarrels between Fleming and Leigh popped up over trifles, often ended with Leigh in tears, Fleming in rage...
Long before the New Deal, old Bachelor McReynolds had come an ogre to liberals. Invariably he voted with the conservative majority. On Feb. 18, 1935 he burst out in uncontrollable wrath at the Gold Clause decision,† roared in dismayed rage: "The Constitution is gone!" One by one his colleagues retired or died. Still undenied by McReynolds was the remark attributed many times to him: "I'll never resign as long as that crippled - - is in the White House...
...said that Germany would probably do nothing about Russia's wanton act, although the high officials in military, circles were surely "boiling with rage." Finland is of great military importance to Russia because in case of a war with another European country, the enemy might use Finland as a possession into the Soviet republic, or else they will make a protectorate of her. Of the two I think they will do the latter, because although the military significance is the same either way, the other Scandinavian states will be much less alarmed if Russia does base on which to land...
...Curran and the red-faced rage of Martin Dies, New Orleans police asked Washington police to hold Witness McCuistion, charging that he had had a hand in beating and shooting to death a Curranite last September. Chairman Dies roared that it was a dirty union trick, called upon the U. S. Department of Justice to protect Witness McCuistion. The suggestion that New Orleans police had worked hand-in-hand with a C. I. O. union to discredit the committee amused profane, posy-wearing Chief of Detectives Johnnie Grosch. In New Orleans, he recalled his prowess at hounding...
...Like ghosts remembering ghosts," he and an oldtime officer talked. The officer said: "Do you know, I can hardly bring myself to believe that it may happen all over again. Yesterday I went to one of our war cemeteries, and when I stood there I felt a kind of rage and a kind of anguish. The damned folly of life has caught us again and the sons of those who died are going to be the victims of another evil spell. Can it be possible or isn't it just a nightmare from which we shall all wake...