Word: raging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first wife to have an abortion for sheer terror at the thought of the fuss a child would make. In his abnormal ache for sympathy, he falsifies his dead mother as an out-all-night card player in order to make his childhood sound tragic. He flies into a rage when he is called from dinner to attend a wounded woman who is having a premature baby. And yet the author has regarded Suprugov so compassionately that the reader may feel compassion for the wretch...
...real-estate lobby. North Dakota's intransigent Bill Langer even dragged Winston Churchill into the debate, accusing him of serving with the Spanish forces against the U.S. in 1898.*When Churchill refuted the charge in a wire to Texas' Tom Connally, Langer exploded in almost unintelligible rage. Churchill, he roared, "is not an enigma wrapped in riddle; he is a cold-blooded foreign propagandist wrapped in a bag of aristocratic wind inside a worldwide graveyard which he helped to create and in which he feels so thoroughly at home that now he wants to do it all over...
...flattered Deliphene, played with her 21-month-old baby Rainell, helped install an indoor toilet in her house, and finally became her lover. Martha was beside herself with rage and jealousy-particularly after Ray offered Martha $2,000 and the car to clear...
...social propaganda Knock on Any Door is very nearly a dud. But with the rage, sweat, rhetoric and kinetic screen personality of Lawyer Bogart to pull it together, it becomes in the last few reels a fairly exciting courtroom drama...
...Odets' rage and revulsions are wasted: some of his Hollywood villains-including a cynical hatchetman and a ruthless cinemagnate (well played by Paul Mc-Grath and J. Edward Bromberg) are vividly caught or caricatured. Now & then, along with some "poetic" writing that is as unpleasantly conspicuous as a nose ring, a lively crack comes forth. But most of The Big Knife is as unfocused as it is violent; it is full of curses not deep but loud, of intemperate and untidy theatrics. And Castle's particular predicament is far too unusual to mean anything. He is surely...