Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enraged because his sweetheart had jilted him, one Daruse, a farmer, piled rocks. and tog- upon a railway in order to give vent to his wrath...
Around his pulpit he piled high the stack of books and magazines which God had destined him to annihilate. He preached a sermon to light the fires of faith. His organist and full-voiced choir fanned the flames of wrath with hymns of the Church Militant...
...through runs a vein of anger and bitterness. The title itself is biter, and the dedication to "Certain poets, friends of mine (all but one)" is still consistent. While each poem seems conceived in wrath and dedicated to irony, he does not dodge invective; see his remarks to "The Public" beginning...
...saved her body from the massacre that exterminated her Royalist parents, but the memory of the shrieks and the blood of that massacre still walked like a ghost through her mind. Her aunt, the upright, deliberate, tireless Catherine, asserted her a doomed object of God's particular wrath, a fatal woman, not for any man's arms...
...thousand years and more the political chess game of Europe has been conducted on certain very definite rules and principles. And except when a people rose in its wrath to hand "les aristocrats" to the lampposts, they changed not at all. But the cataclysm of 1914 destroyed traditions of play as of rank. With the disintegration of political parties after the war, Europe has been dominated by individuals. By sheer force of personality Mussolini has gathered a national following, and Herr Hitler has apparently attempted to follow that precedent. Premier Poincare appears to be the government of France, as Lenin...