Word: wroth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...order to receive a $600,000 trust fund. For several months she put padding inside her clothes. Then she adopted Trixie from an orphan asylum, collected the $600,000. The Senator died without being aware of the deception. In 1923, however, an aged family retainer grew wroth with Mrs. Wholean and told the secret to Mrs. Henderson Sr. He had witnessed the reception of the child in the Henderson Jr. home. Last week District of Columbia Supreme Court papers were produced to show that Mrs. Henderson Sr. had formally adopted Trixie as her own daughter in 1924, but this...
...bishop who's quite fond of banning Whatever he haps to be scanning Made some one so wroth That he shouted with froth: "You cannot serve both God and Manning...
...mass of irrelevant matters and defied the intention of Congress. Result: the Senate voted the Commission only $50,000 ordered that this sum and last year's balance be used exclusively for Prohibition. When President Hoover heard that Congress had virtually orphaned his prize Commission, he was wroth. To newsmen he read a statement in which he said...
Vice in Detroit grew greater, became the subject of wholesale graft accusations by Judge Edward J. Jeffries, presiding jurist of the Recorder's Court. The Mayor and Commissioner Gillespie went to the Kentucky Derby. While they were gone, Commissioner Emmons had many a gambling den raided. Wroth, the Mayor returned, heard a deputation of citizens demand the dismissal of Gillespie, the support of Emmons' raids. His answer was the dismissal of Commissioner Emmons...
...Saint Gandhi grew wroth at British authorities who have been methodically seizing salt evaporated by his followers. Said he: "It is sheer vulgarity to snatch salt from our Satyagrahis [Nationalist volunteers]. It is my earnest desire that the Satyagrahis should not part with their salt in spite of the most severe injury to their hands." His chief worry was that he had not been arrested, though his second son was jailed last week as his first was fortnight ago for violating the salt laws, making "seditious utterances...