Word: self-control
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...Abilene Hardin tangled with Hickok, then a city marshal. Although Thomas Ripley writes with frank partisanship, unearths terrible scandals in Hickok's career, unbiased readers may feel that the famed gunman nevertheless emerges as an individual of great gravity and self-control. Although Hardin's prejudices were inflamed when he heard that Yankee "Wild Bill" killed only Southerners, they got along well until Hardin once made too much noise while bowling and "Wild Bill" arrested him. Getting the drop on the marshal, Hardin cursed him as one who would shoot a boy in the back. Waiting...
Surveying his Vassar domain, Henry Noble MacCracken, 53, can say: "Under favorable conditions and proper guidance we have found the American student to be characterized by self-control, reliability, persistence and tolerance." His tolerant charges in turn watch him play tennis with freshmen, dance with sophomores, romp in the annual costume baseball game between students & faculty, dress up to take the part of an ancient Greek citizen or Hindu prince in a college play-and find him pre-eminently worthy of respect, admiration, affection...
...Cleveland, met priests, nuns and laymen in a Catholic Conference on Family Life. Said President Henry C. Schumacher: "Strange forms of marriage are being openly advanced. Its indissolubility is more and more being ignored. . . . Continence and self-control are sneered at. Licentious behavior is ever on the increase...
...Washington Post has a high regard for the ability, energy and devotion to the public interest of General Johnson. It is a matter of regret that it cannot, also, admire his self-control or temperance in public utterance...
Although Henry wouldn't give his reasons, they seem fairly evident, if one wishes to read between the lines. Henry believes in the "ideal behind," although he falls to explain whether he believes this ideal to imply government or self-control of industry; he has, by his own admission, taken many years ago the first tiny footsteps that the country is now taking. In short, Henry was in on the ground floor, and the public will know it, or else, Henry feels that if he signs, there will be no opportunity for delayed and dignified explanations in the Times...