Word: wroth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Senator Shortridge heard of the Norris motion, he was so wroth that he exclaimed to newsmen...
Vexed and wroth were English tycoons last week when Sir Percival gave to the Spectator, famed London weekly review, a signed article by Mr. Ford in which the latter served notice that all Ford workmen will be paid at least ?5 a week at his new English factory in Dagenham, while factories next door pay less than ?3, and English textile mills pay as little as ?2 75 (TIME...
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...