Word: raging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advised that charges should be brought "on behalf of the people of Louisiana" to the Senate. The widespread belief that the none-too-courageous Senate committee, in the face of overwhelming evidence of political wrongdoing, was foxily preparing a technical "out" for itself stirred up equally widespread resentment and rage in Louisiana. Last week Senator Long's foes were confident that they could soon harness these popular emotions to dethrone the Kingfish...
Back of Mr. Dodge's rage lay the subject of superchargers or blowers, to increase engine power. Long has he wanted to supercharge his boats, but Gold Cup rules forbade. Lately at a meeting of the Gold Cup Contest Board, by means of family proxies Mr. Dodge won a vote approving superchargers for next year's Gold Cup race at Lake George, N. Y., over the bitter protest of other contestants. Last week A. P. B. A. was sympathetic but firm. The Gold Cup's deed of gift forbids major changes in contest rules after a challenge...
...bushmaster hates captivity. Surrounded by tropical foliage and plenty of food, it goes on a sullen hunger strike. Attempts at forced feeding numb it with rage, paralyze its digestion. It starves to death in four or five months. Snakeman March, now possessor of the only known bushmaster in captivity, may have better luck since he will keep his catch in its native habitat...
...skit in As Thousands Cheer, currently the most popular musicomedy in Manhattan, represents John Davison Rockefeller Jr. bestowing Radio City on his father as a birthday present. In a tremulous rage, the elder Rockefeller takes after his son with a carving knife. Guffawing audiences find the skit the funniest in the show, because it seems the truest. Financially, Radio City is a thumping flop. The precise size of the deficit is unknown, but there is no doubt that the thump lands squarely on the Rockefeller pocketbook. Most of the land beneath the enterprise is owned (tax free) by Columbia University...
...time; at a crucial moment the cement runs out: then some blundering fool cuts off the water to attach a metre; it rains; a storm comes, knocking out the telephone wires, imperiling vital communications. One of the briggaders loses a hand between two shunting flatcars. The foreman, incoherent with rage, implores his superior engineer, who he thinks is interfering, to go to hell, to get off the lot. By the time the last few loads are mixed, even anti-Bolshevik readers will be sitting on the edge of their chairs, breathing hard through their noses. When the whistle blows...