Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second place, today's announcement that fifty per cent of the undergraduate applications for the Yale game are to be reduced by lot, makes it difficult to restrain an outburst of honest wrath. Since words will not make more seats we are forced to be content in offering two suggestions to make the blow a little less intolerable...
...reason of the closeness of the score. The game was called, they reasoned, in order to permit the baseball "magnates" to pocket the proceeds of the game, whose total considerably exceeded $100,000. The crowd had to find something tangible upon which to pour the vials of its wrath, and it readily found a visible symbol in the person of Judge Landis, high commissioner of baseball. Upon his head an angry and tumultuous crowd of between 5000 and 8000 poured invective after invective, and if Judge Landis escaped without bodily harm, it was due to no excess of charity...
...article quotes at length from diaries and letters written by Lords and Ladies of various periods. One letter begins dearest creature", another describes the "Horried torter" of a lady's dying lap-dog. Sam Weller's "wessel of wrath" finds full vindication in a diary of the sixteenth century which discusses "welwets, wacabonds and women" with no hesitation whatsoever. "Ojus", too, and "sparrowgrass" are not only in common use but are even preferred by the standard dictionary of 1790. "Cockney", continues the article, "that noble blend of East Mercian, Kentish, and East Anglican, which was written by Chaucer, printed...
...lest Seniors who could have used even more time for Divisionals be moved to wrath by the idea, we take the liberty of pointing out the editor's confessedly licentious mood." And yet the Alumni did not take a vacation; why should the Alumni Bulletin...
...said that every generation thinks its children lawless? Not that we object to all this talk, amusing as it is, but we should like to know whether the constant struggles to be horrible examples is unique with our age alone. If we have succeeded in stirring up the wrath of the just for the first time, we should at least get credit for that...