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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...similar fate pursues Ingunn and her master. In righteous wrath Olav had secretly killed Ingunn's lover, but nevertheless married Ingunn to love and cherish her. "Now at last they were safely together. He passed his hand over her shoulder and arm?it was cool and soft as silk; the coverlet had slipped down. He drew it up, bending over her with caresses, and she replied from her drowsiness with little sleepy words of endearment, like a bird twittering on its nightly perch. But his heart was wakeful and easily scared? it started like a bird that flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vikings on Land | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...were not afraid to bring down upon me the wrath of the musically learned," he wrote, "I would further confide that the Strauss comedy gives me a greater satisfaction than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ten Best | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...with the established religion. But established religion had lost its virility to an "age of reason," and Wesley hoped to counter this "deathly decorum" with a revival of mysticism and emotionalism. Throughout England, therefore, he organized societies with the sole condition of membership "a desire to flee from the wrath to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fleeing From The Wrath | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Alone among the newspapers the tabloid Daily News (biggest circulation in the U. S.) vented its wrath in a stern editorial, betrayed the liveliest inferiority complex. It baited Messrs. Morgan & Morrow with representing both the U. S. and Wall Street in Mexico, and climaxed: "By such toplofty behavior Mr. Morgan only got himself into a scene where he had not been invited, and called attention in a most awkward and public manner to the close business connections between himself, Miss Morrow's father and the United States government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Infernal Outrage | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Reasons for Arson, Murder. One essential fact is the key to understanding of the present days of wrath between Agrarians and Proletarians in Russia. The fact is that Dictator Stalin is straining and perhaps overtaxing the resources of the country to get money for his industrialization program. He has turned the screw of direct taxation on the Kulak. With varying harshness in varying districts he has forced peasant and Kulak to sell their grain to the State at prices fixed by it-low prices. Most of this grain is consumed in Russian cities, but Stalin's policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Days of Wrath | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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