Word: wroth
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...Probably the reason for my misreading, other than my old eyes, was that I am so used to reading fault-finding letters that I naturally look for faults. Hereafter I shall bear in mind that I can make mistakes ; and I shall not hunt for yours and be so wroth when I find...
...McCarl then waxed wroth, He wrote a letter to Attorney General Sargent. He said in almost so many words that the Department of Justice had not done its duty in presenting the case,, had failed to bring before the court lega points which he had suggested in a memorandum. He added "this office must decline to accept the memorandum opinion of the Court of Claims in this case...
...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...