Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rebellion has broken out in Smith Hall. After two long weeks of breakfast at which boiled eggs have alternated with boiled eggs on the daily menu, the Freshmen in that dormitory have risen in wrath. During luncheon yesterday some doughty leader of the crusade tacked on the bulletin board at the door of the dining hall a piece of theme paper with the following legend. "We, the undersigned, desire some other main dish for breakfast than eggs...
...better of him. Mr. Hearst, ever watchful for financial gain, makes use of his newspapers to boost his magazines. To this Mr. Nast expresses no objection. But when Mr. Hearst's press undertook to puff Hearst magazines at Mr. Nast's expense, Mr. Nast rose in dignified wrath...
...handling the Greco-Italian crisis. By its quiet use of the public opinion of the world, say the pro-Leaguers, Geneva brought a restraining influence to bear on Mussolini and saved the situation, establishing its own position as a permanent force for peace. But the critics are up in wrath claiming that the death-knell of the League has been sounded, flouted and defied by Italy, and requiring only the in pace requiescat" or the equivalent pagan expression to send it forever to limbo. It is almost too much for the man on the fence. But perhaps there is light...
Harper's Weekly, long live its name, has been dead only a few years. It was one of the casualties of the War. Two generations ago the famous weekly carried the cartoons of Nast, which kindled the flame of public wrath and eventually consumed the corrupt tinder of the Tweed Ring. The New York Times was high priest over that burnt offering to the god of politics. But Harper's Weekly held the torch. Today a ghost of journalism has returned, announcing itself as the New Harper's Weekly, an " International Illustrated Journal...
John Henry MacCracken, president of Vassar, spoke at Chautauqua: " One of the greatest tragedies of the world is the growing wrath against the Jews in European Universities. I pray God it may not extend to our American universities...