Word: temperal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this one point alone. Nobody believed that even M. Briand could get the Deputies to stick an obnoxious tax stamp squarely on their constituents' cigarets without the enveloping camouflage offered by the Briand-Doumer scheme as a whole. The action of the Committee was supposed to reflect the temper of the Chamber. Surely now, M. Briand must yield...
...tread cautiously. It would be easy to get unpleasant, and that wouldn't do at all because just now the Playgoer editor is conducting a campaign to be as nice as possible to everybody and try to remove this department's reputation for cynicism and general all-round bad temper...
...Kansas espouses is likely not only to have the firm support of the farmer, but to have a good chance of enactment provided the Presidential veto does not intervene. At any rate as leader of the Senate farm bloc, Mr. Capper has as much power to disturb the even temper of that body's procedure as Mr. Curtis, his colleague, the majority leader, has to carry out the Administration's policies...
...hoped, then, that the United States will handle the negotiations with gloves, respecting the natural temper and the prestige of a government that is actually trying to make Mexico a nation. It is to be hoped that the false contention of the Mexican Foreign Minister will not be too aggressively held up to view; and that American interference will not be such as to jeopardize any chances of lasting peace on the southern border...
...Supreme Court which pretty well establishes that a U. S. Senator is a state officer, but in a case similar to Mr. Nye's the Senate once took the opposite attitude. The committee on Privileges and Elections will consider Mr. Nye, and from their temper last week it is likely that the regular Republicans will then seat...