Word: raging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finished the important business of making committee assignments. The "Third Party Bloc," consisting this year of seven Progressives from Wisconsin, one from California and five Farmer-Laborites from Minnesota, flew into a rage at the Majority for not giving them assignments to important committees as members of a third party. Instead the Majority treated them as "bastard Democrats," assigned them to committees along with other Democrats at the tail end of the Majority's assignment. Hardly had this storm blown over when the Minority brought on another. The Republicans granted William Lemke, who ran for President on the Union...
...cinema capital, it suffers from a torpor so pronounced that U. S. audiences are likely to suspect that the murdered leading lady is not really dead but dozing. Good shot: Dolores Del Rio-whose next U. S. picture will be Devil's Playground-in a jealous rage...
...frightened," wrote doggy Albert Payson Terhune in Reader's Digest last summer (TIME, Aug. 17), "nature pumps an undue amount of adrenalin through your system. This throws off an odor . . . which human nostrils fail to detect. Dogs, however, hate it. It rouses some of them to rage; in others it inspires only contempt. Many an otherwise inoffensive dog will attack when that odor reaches...
...French Army officer, lost with his troop, happens on their camp. When Batouch brings in a bottle of the Trappist liqueur Lagarnine, the officer remembers where he has met Boris before. Without so much as saying, "It's a small world after all," he goes off in a rage...
...cover Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign in India. While Mr. Miller looked on at Dharasana, native police under the direction of British officials methodically clubbed and booted rank after rank of the Mahatma's supine, unresisting followers. Says Reporter Miller: "I felt an indefinable sense of helpless rage and loathing, almost as much against the men who were submitting unresistingly to being beaten as against the police wielding the clubs...