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Word: wrath (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from appeasing the wrath of the Harvard undergraduates, these and other advance notices about the play only stired them up the more. The story of the riot and subsequent disturbance in Boston is famous in Harvard history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATE FIRST-NIGHTER TELLS OF OPENING OF "BROWN OF HARVARD" IN 1906 AND DESCRIBES WORK OF ITS AUTHOR | 4/9/1926 | See Source »

...attractive to the mother. Luckily a young man from Grand Rapids Furniture, as he calls it, turns up to outrival the "homme du monde" and the story ends happily when Colonel Fleming, friend of the Grand Rapids youth, saves Belle from suicide and begs forgiveness for his prewar wrath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOIS PLAYS DAUGHTER TO BELLE AGAIN | 3/24/1926 | See Source »

...pound the desk with defiant Middlewestern fists. There is none like Dreiser--a Gulliver among literary Lilliputians! they bellow. Everyone must take a week's vacation and read "An American Tragedy"; nothing short of a colossal achievement. Simultaneously other critics of an equal eminence rise in anger from their wrath on the labored, Teutonic, Kolossal opus. Written over a period over ten years, this novel, hurriedly completed in a few months, scarcely re-touched, and condensed not at all, has been published in a rough, raw, dull, and barbaric fulsomeness. Let us regurgitate, they howl in chorus, Dreiser...

Author: By Frederick DE W. pingree, | Title: Dreiser. A Study in Over-Estimation | 3/13/1926 | See Source »

...Then was the Wrath of the Sons of Harvard kindled within them, and they answered and said, No verily, neither thou, nor they Comrade Thomas shall be expelled; nor shall a Hair of your Heads fall to the Ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAD BUTTER IN UNIVERSITY COMMONS CAUSED "GREAT REBELLION OF 1776" | 3/12/1926 | See Source »

Indiana in 1923 had perhaps 200,000 members, but probably not over 50,000 at present. It has wielded great political power, but this is waning, although politicians in general steer clear of incurring its wrath. In recent municipal elections it succeeded in some cities and failed in others. Its former Grand Dragon is serving a life term in prison for murder of a girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Decline | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

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