Word: angered
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...mother, Rennie, was looking beautiful and young Toes, sociable no end, repeated the remark at home. Kim, the lean Irish rake, who had often enough growled that Rennie had "neither chic nor chien" and who despised the chows as stupid foreigners, bristled at the news, but not in anger. A tremor passed down the lupine spine off big Boris, too, and that very afternoon he was so sentimental about Rennie's glossy brown coat and hang-down ears that Tessa, his Russian-temperamental fiancee, bit him on all four legs. Golden Toes had no idea what...
Where Anthony Comstock was a berserk lion of purity, Mr. Sumner dislikes being thought of as a reformer. His smile and forbearance are of the efficient Y. M. C. A. type. With affability, not anger, does he discountenance the evildoer. In the performance of his duties, he avoids "scenes" by working hand in glove with Manhattan's district attorney, at present, one Joab H. Banton, whose definition of art is "the beautiful as opposed to the realistic," who regards certain plays of Sophocles as indecent, who says, "My God, if Christianity has not advanced us beyond the stage...
...Gilman stated, "we must turn back to the revolution of 1898 and the events immediately following it. The young emperor at that time was a decided progressive, and with the collaboration of three of his ministers, started on a policy of reform. His revolutionary and progressive ideas roused the anger of the Empress dowager, who ordered the leaders' arrest. One of the ministers escaped to Japan, where he wrote a volume about his progressive ideas...
...association were present. In addition two thousand others of their personnel attended. Each of them-the men and the women, the laity and the profession-had given of their time, their money, their lives, on committees, on staffs, on patient registers, to hospital work. And, as there is no anger like that of the hampered welldoer, each wanted to speak forth on the injur ies to his intentions. Some criticisms and suggestions: Trustees. "They are often woe fully ignorant of even the pressing problems of their institutions. They employ officers and condone methods which they never would tolerate in their...
...shoulders hunched, his left thumb insultingly applied to his buttonish nose. In his right hand was a little wooden sword. On his head appeared a crested toy helmet, bravely capped by a toy British flag. Behind his twiddling fingers, the small creature's mouth was opened in scolding anger; his scrubby mustache and beetling eyebrows bristled. His spectacles added to the effect of impotent, scrawny anger, which the tall figure, in familiar top hat and long coattails, surveyed with quizzical geniality, hands in pockets...