Word: wroth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many, Yale intimated this hope to the older men when she issued her commencement invitations. Like no other, Yale did this in such a way that the intimation savored of a lecture on party manners. A graduate of the class of 1875, resenting this lecture, sat down in gentlemanly wroth, called for his stenographer, wrote an irate letter to The New York Times...
...hoped that the weather will be fair, but even in case of rain no further postponement will be made, declare the Senior authorities, wroth at the double setback their plans have already received...
...some "Iambasting"; the Hearst paper was blamed for its reversal of its State Street policy, and its editor for loving Curley; leather-lunged newsboys were sent to Boston Common in an attempt to stampede the "American's" 5-cent fare meeting. It seems that the "Telegrams" is very wroth because its rival, once the father of the 10-cent proposition, has changed its mind and now sees the beauties of the 5-cent rate...
Tuesday saw another word-battle. Senator Heflin rose to speak on the New berry case, and there was a rush to the cloak room. Even those who remained committed the discourtesy of whispering among themselves. Whereupon Mr. Heflin waxed wroth and denounced the whisperers in no uncertain terms. Then followed an orgy of name-calling equal only to that of the day before. Needless to say, these remarks were "expunged from the record". And another expunging followed on Wednesday when some ill-considered remarks of Senator Reed's on the visage of Mr. Volstead vanished before the eraser...
...editorial column of the "Daily Princetonian" has waxed wroth over books and magazine articles which represent Princeton as a cross between a first-rate country club and a sanitarium where one may rest up after arduous week-ends. The writer of the editorial admits that there may be a few individuals who think of their alma mater in these terms; but the difficulty comes from judging the mass by the few--"unrepresentative observation" as logicians call it. Harvard has had a similar experience along a different line. A certain class of outsiders read in the papers of millionaires' sons here...