Word: wroth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grumpy Dr. Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank refused to tell M. Moreau what Germans to invite, put him in a quandary. Dr. Schacht was wroth at the known intention of the Allies to convene the bank charter committee in Brussels? hotbed of hostility to the Reich. Presently correspondents learned at the Bank of France that the committee would probably meet in some other city, and it was believed that Dr. Schacht would cooperate on that basis...
...culminating last week when (the Warrior was starting West, there was the Whispering Campaign−on Roman Catholicism (again), Drunkenness, Social Eligibility (TIME, Sept. 17). It was mean. It was poisonous. It was unworthy of the Nominee it helped. But it persisted and the Warrior's friends grew wroth. Chairman Work of Hooverism disowned the Whispers. But Chairman Work, perhaps forgetting President Roosevelt's historic misunderstoodness about liquor, could not refrain from adding: "Why is it necessary for a man's friends to deny that he is intoxicated...
...Since practically every Hungarian is a royalist, the perennial squabble between Budapest politicians is over whether to elect a king or to recognize the legitimate claim of Prince Otto of Habsburg. Last week legitimist Hungarians were wroth to the point of oaths and tears because Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen has just appointed the leader of the electionists, Herr Julius Gombos, to be Under Secretary...
Teeth Takers. Thieves and murderers seized, in Odessa last week, the 75-year-old Italian Vice-Consul Signor Kozzio. Having beaten him to death, they extracted and escaped with his several gold teeth. Observers wondered whether Il Duce, justly wroth, would exact "a tooth for a tooth...
...Wroth with the treatment accorded a New York night club by Prohibition officers armed with axes, the Evening World says flatly, "It is incredible that any people, not abject slaves under the rule of tyrants, will tolerate such infamies indefinitely. It this is what Prohibition means, then it is time to get rid of Prohibition." To the student of American history, this statement will have a familiar ring, but events seem to justify it. It was to the tune of a number of contemptuous cartoons that the lid dropped on Boston during the New Year's celebration, and the warning...