Word: raging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baffled onlookers were made of sterling stuff. Howling with rage, a few of the nimbler spirits began to scale the palings around the dock. Like a frightened gazelle, our hero, resourceful as ever, ran to the end of the float, pushed the log into the middle of the stream, untied the Leviathan, and pushed off just as the enemy swarmed over the fence and advanced in skirmish formation. Paddling vigorously with his hands, he was soon in midstream, and was nearing his prize when of a sudden his progress was stopped, for unhappily he had forgotten to untie the stern...
Industrial stocks immediately shared the spirit of sacrifice by slumping an average of two yen (60?). The Cabinet hissed its rage at Minister of War General Senjuro Hayashi who, having taken the precaution to be 200 miles out of Tokyo at the moment, replied, "I had not even seen the pamphlet...
...stuck to her choice. Eventually her husband gave her a divorce and she and Lawrence were married, but for a long time they lived outside the pale. Theirs was a stormy life together. Writes Frieda: "What does it amount to that he hit out at me in a rage, when I exasperated him, or mostly when the life around him drove him to the end of his patience? I didn't care very much. I hit back or waited till the storm in him subsided...
That did the trick. Foreign Minister Benito Mussolini, puffing with rage, sent the Italian Minister at Belgrade hot-footing around to the Jugoslavian Foreign Office with an official protest. Wrote the Giornale d'Italia...
...once a little clubfoot in his Nazi newsorgan taunted Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg with age, attacked him under the headline IS VON HINDENBURG STILL ALIVE?, charged without a scrap of evidence that "his advisers are Jews and Marxists." That was in 1930. The President, stung to rage as never before, brought suit and was awarded 800 marks ($185) for defamation from the imp who is now Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. Last week by a supreme irony, it was Dr. Goebbels who, speaking over a nationwide hookup one morning, broke to the German people...