Word: venomously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than himself. It has been said that a continuous course toward the left, a kind of fatal ebullition toward the abyss are the characteristics of all revolutions. Italy has demonstrated that there is a way of dealing with subversive forces. She has found the necessary antidote against the Russian venom...
...have been sound and if he made false prophecies he also made lasting ones. When he announced his intention of writing a serious play built around the life of Joan of Arc, the critics laughed and settled back to await a Shavian monster, born of satire and nursed with venom. But "St. Joan", when produced, was recognized to be more than an expression of an eccentric personality. In its still short career it has been with the exception of Candida", the most widely praised of Shaw's plays. Now it has brought him one of the few "literary", prizes worth...
German headline writers attached exclamation points to such belligerent polysyllabic as "MAJESTATSBELEIDIGUNG!" (High Treason!) Wrathy editors distilled their venom into starkly brutal paragraphs. The week brawled out into a stramash of contention?all because some millions of Germans were preparing to seek the polls and cast their ballots upon the following proposition...
Famed Japanese publicists Teisuka Akiyama and Seijiro Kawashima detonated into lurid phrase again last week, called upon Japan to declare war on the U. S., rehashed with venom the celebrated "Hanihara incident."† (TIME, April...
...recent book of Henry Cabot Lodge is the fall edition of the Hymn of Hate. It is a futile effort at self-defense-an apology weakly put forth; a retreat without a single handsome feature. No one could expect, from a pen dipped in venom, a fair or impartial appraisement of Woodrow Wilson; especially from one who, where Woodrow Wilson's policies were concerned, was incapable of having a generous thought. It is regrettable, indeed, that at the end of his so distinguished a career a man should have put his great talents to so base...