Word: wrath
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Most citizens were less interested in the violation than in the timing of the WPB blast. The violation occurred during April, May and June. But WPB managed to contain its wrath until Nov. 10-three days after the election...
This is the Abomination. This is the wrath...
...Goldwyn wrath boiled over six weeks ago. He had dickered with San Francisco's McNeil-Naify Co. (100 theaters in California and Nevada), to show Up in Arms (TIME, March 13) on a percentage of the gross basis, which would be highly profitable to Goldwyn. McNeil-Naify offered him a lower flat-rental basis, which would be highly profitable to them...
...Argentine Historian Leopoldo Lugones on onetime President and historian Domingo Faustino Sarmiento ("the Argentine Jefferson"): "Danger was his habit and wrath his beauty; his dimensions became those of a deity, cleaving the air like lightning, riding the tempest with a cloud at his belt and a thunderbolt on his shoulder...
...Shropshire who finally trembled into his grave at the age of 152 (1483-1635). Parr and wallstrait are puns ("par" and "Wall Street") on the rise & fall of stockmarket values. The immense polysyllable that fol lows the word "fall" is the voice of God's wrath over the fall of man, the crash of Finnegan from the ladder, and the thunder clap that inaugurates a new period of history...