Word: raging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the New York World, started to cruise around the world. His doctors had warned him against overexcitement. In Greece he received a cable from his brother-in-law, Colonel William L. Davis, which kept him in a rage until his ship reached Constantinople. As the ship was about to leave port, Mr. Pulitzer said to his secretary, Ponsonby...
...Capitol Theatre. In the lobby were police to help ticket holders through the door. The first performance, except for a few eggs smashed on billboards, passed off quietly. By the time the second performance started two hours later, the crowd in the street had worked itself up into a rage. While a fashionable audience with included British Ambassador Sir Eric Phipps edged into the theatre, there were wild shouts of: "We don't want Bergner! We don't want Jewish actresses-the Judah of Paris!" More eggs spattered on placards and against the lights. Finally, just when...
...dancers established his reputation with the world. He had Fokine create ballets that had true dramatic context. He used settings by Bakst, Derain, later Picasso. He commissioned composers like Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel to write him music. Expense was no item to Sergei Diaghilev. The Russian Ballet was the rage of Europe. Men like Baron Dmitri Gunsburg, Sir Basil Zaharoff and Aga Khan were proud to support it. Diaghilev is the villain of Romola Nijinsky's story, although she freely grants him his tremendous enterprise...
...comments on the "Review's" criticism were written "with tongue in cheek," as Mr. Anon, seems to have had a slight suspicion before the rage of the true Irate Subscriber blinded his sensibilities and launched him on a tirade against undergraduate pomposity in general and mine in particular. His unflattering epithets and choice of comparisons seems strangely out of keeping with the "sober and constructive criticism" that he recommends so strongly...
Cannonade. That last rebuke set off a cannonade of editorial rage. Angriest was Publisher Ogden Reid's arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune: "Here is . . . the first time that the President has publicly given support to the 'Smear America' campaign in which so many of his aides have participated. America has been made familiar with government by edict. Is it now to be subjected to 'government by insult?' The episode is of importance in relation to the constantly growing tendencies of the Roosevelt Administration to resent criticism, however fair, and to slander all who dare...