Word: wrath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Orthodox Mohammedans remembered the ominous adoption of hat in place of fez, the displacement of the Arabic alphabet in the Koran (TIME, July 23), saw in the icy visitation a manifestation of Allah's wrath, turned to the mosques for repentant prayers...
...sacerdos. In his son Matthew's ode on Rugby Chapel he stands with "radiant vigor." In Dean Stanley's enthusiastic biography he is the religiously inspired pedagog. And in Strachey's flashing satiric sketch he is the stodgy pedant, a typical Victorian. Strachey thereby incurs the wrath of Arnold's great-grandson and present biographer, who adds nothing further to the portrait, but demonstrates, in a thoughtful, conscientious manner, Arnold's changes in school curriculum as the beginning of educational reform...
...argue cases before the Paris Bar. Roundly naming names, Judge Wattine mentioned Dudley Field Malone, onetime Collector of the Port of New York, Benjamin H. Conner, President of the American Chamber of Commerce at Paris, and a half dozen more expatriate U. S. lawyers as especial objects of his wrath. As a first and most vital precaution Registrar Chipot of the Civil Court was placed on trial, last week, before all the 119 Magistrates entitled to sit upon that high tribunal. Registrar Chipot is entitled to charge 10 francs (40?) for "handling and filing" divorce papers; but he was gravely...
...John Weston was an attendant-nurse. Mrs. Weston spent a rainy night under another roof, the nurse a "beautiful, marvelous" one under the Westons' with the doctor. Six years later Nurse Katy returned to make her child an honest son. Kind words, a tear, a plea softened her wrath, ended the play, dismissed a summer audience. V;ola Frayne as Nurse Katy, Richard Gordon as Dr. Weston, demonstrated degrees of drunkenness in sympathetic fashion. On the whole, however, a play ineffectual, an evening ill-spent...
Curiously enough it was not belligerent Benito Mussolini who unveiled last week the wrath-kindling Bolzano monument. The Dictator was busy in Rome averting a panic and "rotating" his Cabinet (see ITALY). Therefore the limelight at Bolzano was held by a most diminutive monarch, King Vittorio Emanuele...