Word: rant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the rage of Mrs. Chen, who called on Editor Chan to be rate him; and from the actions, a day or so later, of eight stalwart Chinamen who visited Editor Chan's office and overturned typewriters, upset tables, smashed chairs, moved Editor Chan to swear out a war rant for Mrs. Chen's arrest...
Macbeth is a play, not so much of men and women, as of the wind and the darkness, witches and their gloomy cries. It has been played a thousand ways, by actors, steeped in the colors of their trade, unmannerly breached with gore, who bellow and rant, who incarnadine its multitudinous sea of words with bloody sound and fury...
Third: He is conducting his campaign on a high plane of constructive argument. He does not stoop to raucous denunciation, he does not rant. He speaks as a serious student of national problems, recognizing their difficulties, and dealing with them as an engineer and economist. He does not make promises which he knows that he can not fulfill leaving himself loopholes of escape from their literal fulfillment. He has not tried to carry water on both shoulders by appealing both to the wets and the drys, both to the free traders and the protectionists, both to big business...
...rave and to rant...
...Fortune's Maggot" is a short novel, but it is one of the finest things of the year. It is a happy fact that subtlety plays no part in Bostonian censorship or the book might be suppressed. Certainly it is more blasting to one's faith than the hearty rant of Mr. Lewis against the clergy; for whereas Lewis attacked one clergyman, Miss Warner, with her satire and her fine cutting humor, gives sharp jabs into every ideal for which any clergyman stands, leaving the reader with the furtive feeling that there is something wrong with civilization and that life...