Word: raging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only eleven students; if they could find a twelfth, they could buy their dancing lessons cheaper. They descended on a pint-sized teen-ager backstage in a Dresden theater who had hopes of becoming a stage designer. How would he like to study under Dancer Mary Wigman, the new rage of Europe? He was willing: Before long, Harald Kreutzberg was the prize...
...roof over their heads. It is unbearable, and unwise as well, to cherish memory of the bestial atrocities which have been perpetrated by Moslem and Sikh and Hindu alike. It is beyond human competence to conceive, far less to endure the thought of, the massiveness of the mania of rage, the munificence of the anguish, the fecundity of hate breeding hate, perhaps for generations to come...
...Molotov demanded recognition of Russian interests in Rumania, Bulgaria, the Dardanelles and Finland, besides the Baltic states and part of Poland, as the price of continuing friendship. In fact, Byrnes believes that Molotov's stubborn rooting away at Europe's fences was what sent Hitler into a rage and precipitated the Nazi invasion of Russia...
After meeting Samuels in a bar, three soldiers go to his room and one of them, in a drunken rage, kills the 'Jew boy." Thus far, the story is nothing more than another Philo Vance tale, but original elements begin to appear when Robert Young, like any enterprising detective, looks for a motive. After a few false starts the sleuth realizes that Montgomery--Robert Ryan--harbors a mania against the people who stayed home during the war, especially Jews. While the remainder of the plot is not especially original in itself, the story benefits from excellent acting and a couple...
...began the reissue cycle last fall with the re-release of the indifferently successful Rage in Heaven (1941) starring Ingrid Bergman and Robert Montgomery. Surprisingly, it took in more money the second time around than it did in the original release. M-G-M followed up by reissuing Boomtown (1940), The Great Waltz (1938) and The Philadelphia Story (1940). Warner Bros, dusted off King's Row (1941), The Sea Hawk (1940) and The Sea Wolf (1941), and 20th Century-Fox tried another round of Alexander's Ragtime Band...