Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...copy first edition of The Companion, a sequel I wrote to The Bachelor Girl (La Gargonne), the feminist novel for which I was expelled from the Legion of Honor. In a ' fighting preface' to The Companion I declared that my new heroine, Annik, will arouse more wrath than my previous one, Monique, as she goes further, attaining spiritual emancipation. Monique stopped halfway and got married...
July 1, August 31, September 22-days of wrath in the coal business...
Recently a Viennese merchant bachelor was ejected from his domicile by the commission. In his wrath he brought an action into the supreme court, but lost his case. " They gave me a fortnight to find a wife," complained the embittered misogamist. "A fortnight, when I am to be married all my life! Unless I go and sleep under the bridges, I am to marry the first woman that comes along...
...good old German sense, was the proper province of female aspiration, and any attempt to educate them beyond the three K's was foolish and dangerous. The result of Mr. See's bull was to increase the endowment funds of Adelphi College (the specific object of his wrath) and to delight the many thousand intelligent Americans of both sexes who love to catch a Babbitt out of bounds...
Whether in preparation for this week or not, there has recently rolled up from many quarters an extraordinary variety of opinion on education. Mr. A. B. See gave vent to inflammatory wrath against women's colleges in general, when he was asked to contribute to the Adelphi College endowment fund. Mr. See felt that colleges were responsible for "smoking, drinking, cosmetics, French heels, and all other flapperisms among young women", and the only ways out in his opinion was to burn them all to the ground. Then President Butler of Columbia complained in his annual report against "the spirit...