Word: wroth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago the victorious Franco Government refused free departure to 17 Loyalist refugees lodged in the Chilean Embassy in Madrid. Chile, now governed by a Popular Front government, got very wroth, and Argentina, El Salvador, Venezuela, Cuba, Uruguay and Mexico joined in demanding that the Generalissimo respect the old Hispanic custom of the right of asylum. Unhispanic indeed sounded the humane statement of the Chilean Foreign Office on the matter: the right of asylum is not a matter of politics, simply a humanitarian principle to avoid useless reprisals. Last week in Santiago, Chile let it be known that victory...
Otuwordly wroth at her parents for giving her such a long name, she is secretly quite pleased with it . . . . especially the middle part...
...priest, crying, "Wherefore hast thou deceived thy people? Wherefore hast thou removed the names from the petition, O thou servant of the money changers?" And him that he revileth; him who representeth in honor in the city of the father of all the land hath been most wroth. His countenance hath fallen, and his anger hath kindled within him, and his dignity hath left him. Wherefore he hath vowed a great deed, and he hath lifted up his voice and cried, "Wherefore hast thou deceived thy church? And it shall come to pass when thou shalt come to the city...
Last week Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., largest in the U. S., announced its intention of cutting salaries from 5%, to 25% on all jobs paying over $3,000. Other companies made similar cuts or prepared to do so, for policyholders would surely be wroth if denied loan & cash surrender privileges while high salaries were being paid. Until 1933 Depression did not greatly affect life insurance salaries, as is evident from the amounts paid their presidents in 1929 and 1932 by leading life insurance companies...
Besides Mr. Wroth's piece, one finds an author's reminiscences (Mrs. Buck); two reminiscences about authors (Mr. Wilde & Mr. Brooke): two scholarly essays on bookish subjects: three items of rather fusty Americana: a humorous sketch: and a single woodent...