Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course in such service there is more opportunity for accident or fatality. The peaceful are not spared by the blind wrath of artillery fire, nor do submarines pay homage to the Red Cross. Yet such added danger over the surety of life in peace at home will count not at all with those whose faith is so far above that granted to most poor mortals...
...well sung by poets, when a man's house was his castle, a flintlock over the mantelpiece his artillery, and his neighbors and himself the defending army. At the call of the tocsin from every home would emerge the embattled citizens, and foreign soldiers would melt before their aroused wrath like the milky way before the sun. For the sake of truth, which is always a prosaic busybody, we must admit that occasionally the embattled citizens failed to defend their castles with the utmost skill, and the foreign soldiery refused to melt at the psychological moment. However, excepting such minor...
...seven declarations of the platform is there a single word to indicate any opposition by its signers to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps or to preparedness; but from some fad or fancy the CRIMSON has construed the document into an expression of hostility and has turned loose its mighty wrath. The reason for this, I believe, can be made out from a consideration of the way in which the CRIMSON has come to be our heroic defender of the national honor...
...poverty and disease and evil would give place to a war against men. The large percentage of American industrial workers who are paid no more than $400 a year, when the living wage is $1,000, would continue the same living death. How can we decently visit such violent wrath upon the Germans, when their wrongs against Americans, are but a drop in the bucket compared with the unrighteous and dishonorable acts perpetrated daily with impunity upon Americans by Americans...
...players from university to professional elevens, and all the accruing scandal and innuendo, not to mention other features which will readily occur to the average follower of college sports. How long would any self-respecting university stand such a condition? How long would it be before in righteous wrath intercollegiate football at many of our institutions would be torn up root and branch and cast into the scrap heap? The future of football as a sport has suddenly assumed a portentous aspect...