Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seek but the neighbor column for effective wrath. There is vengeance, not merely wreaked but wrought. And, as one observes the accused patrolman and discerns how he writhes his swollen eyeballs to watch both his civilian accuser and the police lieutenant, how gaily his hand trembles as the lieutenant bends to record "assault" upon the ledger, how he whips out his pistol and spures the flame, one cannot but admire the felicitous workmanship, polished, final...
Some dominies were humorous. Buddha, they readily grasped, was something to joke about-a funny cross-legged little figure like a Billiken. Others were taciturn, others sorrowful, others inspired to righteous wrath; but on one point all were agreed - it would be a horrible thing to permit the effigy of so noted an infidel to appear in the midst of a Christian city. It would be like reminding men of the lost rites of Astarte, like resurrecting the god, Priapus, or setting up the image of the Golden Bull of Tyre...
Meanwhile Jezebel was leading her husband a merry chase. Finally the poor rumshop keeper, rising in wrath, fell with the knife of an English sailor in his side. After nine days' mourning, Jezebel blossomed forth in magenta, and the handsome widow was soon an object of hate to all the married women of the island and a landmark of delight to visiting sailor...
Then, far from the glare of such chastity, Clarence Darrow must have fumed with wrath, for the heat of his summer oratory never burned the minds of his hearers as the words of Dr. Hayes burned their hearts. Reason has had but a single throne, and her reign was brief among them. Removed from the world and its foibles the students of Southern Junior College no longer fear the comment of Browning's priest with his--"Vanity, Vanity". They are free...
...often a hazardous and thankless one. In bringing to light the faults of the system of which he was a part, Colonel Mitchell is displaying a form of valor that is even greater than that of the battlefield. Facing the probable indignation of the public and the inevitable wrath of one's superiors requires firmer mettle than does the facing of cannons. Instead of being dishonorably discharged from the army, as it is threatened he will be, Colonel Mitchell should be awarded a medal for distinguished service...