Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Articles of Faith," adopted by the Church in 1562 to distinguish it from other Protestant Churches and the Roman Catholic Church, were dropped. "Obey" and "with all my worldly goods I thee endow" were dropped from the marriage service. Such expressions as "miserable sinners," "the vengeance of God," "the wrath of God" were dropped as medieval. ' The proposal to change "the grin of a dog" to "the snarl of a dog" was defeated. The Litany was amended to petition for those who travel "by land and water or by air." New prayers for state legislatures, law courts, schools and colleges...
Murmurs of wrath came out of the West. Like a swarm of bees, droning a chorus of anger, they floated across the continent and then they settled, settled around the head of the Secretary of the Interior, on the brow of Hubert Work...
...they are called. Though they had these plausible titles, they were nothing more than women of the town. "I would hate and loathe myself, if I could stand in the presence of such sights as I saw in the dance halls and not find myself stirred with wrath, and if my cheeks did not grow with hot shame, not merely that the human race had fallen so low in its tastes, but that men, for the sake of dirty gain, should be thus permitted to prostitute youth and to put a mortgage of immorality upon the coming generations...
Indignation if not consuming wrath was in the voice of the Belgian press as M. Theunis, Ambassador Baron Cartier de Marchienne, Felician Cattier and Emile Francqui departed for the U.S. three weeks ago. "Shylock," "the soul of Shylock" people muttered in the streets of Brussels, and; press set down the opprobrious words in black and white. The contemptuous words were not spoken of any of the departing gentlemen, all honored as able statesmen or financiers in their country sneering epithet was applied to an intangible person, that daddy-long-legs of symbolical figures, Uncle...
...Story. She it was that had brought the wrath of Yahweh upon her kind little father. She, Leah, an outcast from Israel. The mark of the beast was upon her for meeting a vast shaggy moujik (Gentile peasant) with strong arms and tender lips in the willows where once he had come upon her bathing naked...