Word: raging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daily, Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, said with a bluntness equal to Mr. Baldwin's: "Has in peace time the Premier or Acting Premier of any Great Power in Europe ever spoken in such terms of another great European power? And it is not a flaming sword but a thoughtful smoldering rage that is the attribute of Baldwin...
...Magazine. Editor Ross, who owns 10% of the New Yorker stock and is paid $40,000 per year, tries to keep himself lashed into a rage to do his best work. He is full of phobias, fears crossing streets, is mortally terrified of earthquakes. He is surprisingly prudish, a fact which has kept out of The New Yorker all dirty jokes, except those which he cannot understand. This "really great editor" FORTUNE sums up as follows...
...what it supposed to be a new and more sympathetic attitude of the NRAdministrator but Germany took instant offense. That night in his hotel room at Omaha, General Johnson was surprised and chagrined to have newshawks call upon him with the news that the German Government, purple with rage, was about to protest. Sitting in his undershirt before an electric fan, the General let himself go in more characteristic fashion...
...compensation. Nor is he the kind of antagonist who makes opponents love him in spite of honest differences. Chunky and spike-haired, he prides himself on speaking his mind anywhere about anything. When he gets on the subject of "invisible government" his thin, sarcastic voice grows shrill with rage. But he is a good teacher. Two years ago Pitt seniors voted him their most popular professor. If anyone still doubted that he was a good teacher, Ralph Edmund Turner could and did refer him last week to no less an authority than John Gabbert Bowman, who few years ago publicly...
When news of this reached Berlin peppery Dr. Schacht, boiling with rage, rushed around to the afternoon teaparty for the foreign press and diplomats at the Ministry of Propaganda (see p. 16). "Nobody will expect Germany to accept such a clearance system!" he snapped at the assembled correspondents, reminding them that while Germany has a favorable trade balance with the United Kingdom she has an unfavorable balance with the British Empire as a whole. This fact gave Dr. Schacht a chance to threaten "complete rejection of all further intercourse" with the Empire, should the Kingdom crack down on Germany...