Word: spleening
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...lashes out with a searing, corrosive power of invective which has made him a force in China ever since he was appointed legal adviser to the original Canton Government of the late, great Dr. Sun. Last year Mr. Chen quarreled with Conqueror Chiang and since then with all the spleen in his bitter soul he has been out to smash the Generalissimo whom he calls "medievally minded," "politically dishonest," "the betrayer of China to Japan" and "the Dictator without a soul who would wreck the Kuomintang...
...Spleen. To enliven its conventions, the A. F. of L. does not put on Zouave parades or ladies' auxiliary bridge tournaments. It invites some foreign Laborite to give a good hell-raising address against some common foe. This year the guest was James Rowan, member of the general council of the British Trade Union Congress. His subject was Adolf Hitler. Said...
...unlooked-for bit of spleen was vented by the Typographical Union, which denounced Father Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit, radio preacher, for building his Shrine of the Little Flower with non-union labor, printing his tracts in non-union plants, advocating the open shop. The typographers asked the Federation "to find him no longer entitled to financial support from any trade unionist...
...liked about Death of a Hero, Author Aldington's first job of fiction, was that the writer attacked his story with the malicious gusto of a man who was hopping mad. In Roads to Glory, The Colonel's Daughter, Soft Answers, the War-torn writer's spleen, his disgust with the England he loves too well, abated not a whit. If there is less bile in All Men Are Enemies, if it seems a bit less malicious than the previous Aldington novels, it is because it is longer (574 pp.), less direct, padded. Author Aldington is finding...
...Spleen boiled up bitterest around a green-topped table in one of the small private committee rooms of the World Monetary and Economic Conference. As Conference President, snowy-crested Scot MacDonald had taken the table's head. Around him were grouped the chairmen, rapporteurs and vice chairmen of the two chief Conference groups, the Monetary Committee and the Economic Committee. Last to arrive was U. S. Delegate James M. Cox who battled so fiercely when the Conference first met to be elected Monetary Chairman. As he strolled in several minutes late Mr. Cox heard high words, realized that...