Word: raging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tunney, Tommy Milton, Johnny Weissmuller, Gar Wood, Bill Tilden, Albie Booth. Last October, aged 30, he married Ruth Ellery of Manhattan. He likes to lie beneath a Panatrope phonograph and whistle in tune with it. The sound of anyone eating an apple before breakfast sends him into a rage. He wishes he could tap dance, has no use for "public relations counsels." Odds, Ends...
...king "for the purposes I have in mind, the sum of four or five hundred thousand francs is neither here nor there. My discoveries and myself must be endowed with a generous hand. . . ." Parsimonious Louis declined, whereupon the money was raised for Mesmer by private subscription. Mesmeromania became the rage. He continued practicing, though without official recognition, until the French Revolution drove him, discredited and poor, out of France into obscurity. On the shores of Lake Constance he still worked on, mesmerized his own declining years with music from his glass harmonica. Though not fully understanding his own discoveries...
...chumps called Tweedledee and Tweedledum who were in continual fisticuffs over a rattle. People grew suddenly incredibly tall or shrunk away until they prit near weren't there at all. It was all most confusing and bewildering, but such great fun. There is something, quite delightful about the fearful rage of a white knight and the incomprehensible conversation of a sleepy doormouse...
...next Harvard speaker, lecturing on "The Effects of Strong Emotion." In this talk, scheduled for January 23, he will outline some of the famous experiments performed in his laboratory at the medical school on the reactions of the animal functions of the human body to hunger, fear, rage, and pain, a subject on which he has written many works...
First act of the new Inukai Cabinet fortnight ago was to take Japan's yen off the Gold Standard (TIME, Dec. 21). Last week the outgoing former Finance Minister, thrifty Junnosuke Inouye, famed for wise and adroit retrenchment, boiled over in helpless rage. "There was no technical reason for the action taken by the new Cabinet!" he charged. "It enabled a small number of persons to reap huge profits,* but it will do irreparable damage to our country's financial position!" Blandly the incoming Finance Minister, venerable Korekiyo Takahashi, said that he would not trouble to draft...