Word: rage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...follow the Roosevelt policy down the line. Since the departure of Arizona's Henry Ashurst in 1941, he was the Senate's best exponent of lush oratory, combined with a delicate irony that was so unanswerably pat that it choked his opposition into helpless gurgles of rage. Fortnight ago, in bitter argument with Missouri's Bennett Clark, he cooed: "My remarks probably creep into his drab life like a gleam of supernal sunshine. I merely want to elevate him to higher planes of thought." When Clark battled it out with Kentucky's "Happy" Chandler, Homer Bone...
...opera really put it on its wheels. For an ice-skating scene in Meyerbeer's Le Prophète, the ballet wore rollers. Rehearsals were bruising-one ballet skater landed in the bass drum-but in London and Paris the scene was a hit. Skating became an international rage...
Twofers. In Topeka, Kans., Pete Reilly got an idea for a war-bond rally from an 1878 newspaper item: "Hug socials are now the rage. It costs 10? to hug anyone between 15 and 20, 5? from 20 to 30, $1 to hug another man's wife, bachelor girls two for a nickel, and woman lectur ers free with a chromo thrown...
Shaken to the soles of his solid brogues, Leader Barkley quickly checked a dozen other Democratic Senators, found ever)' one livid with rage. The House postponed debate on the message, but off the floor 80-year-old Chairman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee was already spluttering his indignation at the message which "questioned our integrity or intelligence, or both." Alben Barkley kept a tight grip on himself and held his peace. After adjournment at 2:15 p.m., he went to his office and began to think. At his modest apartment on Connecticut Avenue...
...deep sunken eyes. He is French and he wears a string of medals. He looks like an Egyptian mummy, except for the queer glitter in his colorless eyes. Another French officer is fat. His eyebrows slant upward. His normal complexion is purple-red-that of a man bursting with rage...