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...comes the sad part of the tale. The accidental upsetting of a goblet, and the consequent tinkling of broken glass precipitated violent action. In a black thunder-cloud of wrath descended His Majesty harsh words rasped as lightning flared forth; and the much-taken-aback Commander of the Carrot, feeling on a par with the meanest of his spud-skinning scullions slunk with his companion out of the abode of the Mighty with his tall between his legs. That is why Waistootts and He-Men have not recently been found in especial Presidential favor...
...effect of intensifying the question of the open door in Chine. Japan, like Germany, will be forced into the position of a nation against whom all the principal markets of the world are closed, but unlike Germany prostrate, will not be in such circumstances as to choke down here wrath as best she may. In short, the possibility of idle looms in Osaka will undoubtedly prove a more potent force in bringing about a quick showdown as to Japan's real Oriental policy than any amount of diplomatic dickering can reveal...
...months old. It was the first official portrait of His Celestial Highness Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito, Crown Prince of Japan (see cut). That this sober infant may inherit an empire as great as it is venerable, Japan's ministers last week risked once more the world's wrath...
...Politics has laid a heavy hand of wrath upon the benevolent Society of St. Tammany. Disinherited by the national democratic organization, harried by a Rooseveltian governor in Albany, and finally, in the ultimate cataclysm, kicked out of the city feed troughs, the society took to sack-cloth and ashes, fixed a Day of Atonement, and picked a Scape-goat...
Neither alternative can be at all attractive to the Chancellor; choosing the first will call down upon him the wrath of the industrialists who backed him as a safe bet to preserve their property; and it will moreover so burden the state's budget that it may force a cut in other expenditures dear to a demagogue's heart. The second choice will involve an admission, tacit or articulate, that he cannot accomplish what he set out to do, not even within a reasonable distance of success. I have no doubt that this bit of brazenness on Hitler's part...