Word: raging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Internationale and the delegates rose and sang. David Lasser, head of the Socialist-Communist Workers Alliance (union of unemployed) shouted to his comrades, pointing to Louis Waldman and Algernon Lee, president of the Rand School of Social Science. The two Rightists were not standing. A howl of rage broke from the convention. Amid the general yammering few heard Louis Waldman's answer: "I will not rise to sing a song of solidarity with a group that has just expelled us and split the Socialist party." After 15 hours of debate, the convention voted nearly...
COLLEGE students invariably at Hollywood's conceptions of then life, conceptions in which and saxophones play more important than textbooks, fraternity houses resemble royal suites at the Bitz and professors croon while leading the class in the latest dance rage...
Ballet had suddenly become a rage not only in Manhattan but in 100 other U. S. cities visited by the Monte Carlo dancers since last October. The fever began in earnest last season when the company toured 20,000 miles, surprised everyone by grossing $1,000,000. This season more ground was covered, with earnings even greater. The Ballet danced with the leading symphony orchestras in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit. It played to capacity audiences in cities which had never seen a ballet. There were sold-out houses in Little Rock, Ark., El Paso, Tex., Portland...
...forthcoming, production. He falls in love with the heroine of the showboat's melodramas, who is also the daughter of its owner. Naturally she is upset when her New York audience laughs and cheers instead of weeping at the histrionic attempts of her cast, and departs in a rage. But Harry pursues her all the way back to the Mississippi and there woos her with the song "Life Begins When You're in Love...
...Venezuelan public filed in politely, took one look, promptly went berserk. Men, women and children, whose kinsmen and ancestors had died in Rotunda, smashed everything smashable, lugged away everything movable, ripped locks out of dungeon doors, wrenched bars from window-slits. Exhausted by an orgy of rage against stone & steel, they filed out into the bright noon of Caracas...