Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imperative it any workable solution is to be attained. The very word, "compromise", has about it a smack of surrender and a suspicion of failure that make it detestable alike to the "bitter-ender" and the "die-hard". The proposer of a compromise usually calls upon himself the wrath of both opposing sides; in the end, however, it is the compromise which triumphs...
...uncertain terms you denounced an attack made upon your College on Sunday night, September 26. The attack was hard to swallow, and aroused your wrath. Let us suppose for the sake of argument that the attack was true--that one of the most famous institutions for higher learning in America, the land of the free, does in spirit espouse the cause of the same military tyranny from which we so proudly rescued ourselves 150 years ago. If that is true, would not silence have been your safest weapon in concealing Harvard's shame...
...history of ideas, the men who fight in the foreground have never been liberals. Christ was no liberal. "Ye generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" His illiberal attitude was unflinching. "Think not that I am come to send peace upon the earth: I came not to bring peace, but a sword." Did ever liberal speak such fighting words? After but three years of revolutionary preaching he fell before the vengeance of the law-and-orderites of the day, as no liberal ever fell...
...tradition err not, this is the number of numbers for an Eli to review. Coming from the wilds it has appeared to me that Harvard is essentially a quiet place where the soul is stirred but not to speeches. But--"Thou liest. I am Keezer! and in his wrath, Casimir seized her and hurled her from his window albeit she was of no trifling weight." After this I shall walk in the gutters and try hard to imagine that Cambridge and the college of "Bottle Nights" are not one and the same place...