Word: temperal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diplomatic firmness and good temper ended a disagreeable chapter in Anglo-American relations. Two years ago British shipping interests charged that the American consular officials at Newcastle-on-Tyne had exceeded their authority by attempting to divert passengers from British to American shipping lines. The British Foreign Office insisted that the two accused officials be transferred from Newcastle, and canceled the exequaturs (official consular recognition) of Slater and Brooks, Consul and Vice Consul of the U. S. The U. S. State Department instituted three separate inquiries, which in each case failed to substantiate the charges. The British Government, however, stood...
Diplomatic firmness and good temper...
...code should be equipped with steam-heat, plumbing and hot water night and day. Divorce was blissfully easy. Early this year, Lady Marconi quieted two years of rumors of divorce by establishing a technical residence at Fiume and suing her husband, who was guilty of incompatibility of temper...
...nearly bursting with astonishment and anger. I had been reared in a stately Spanish household, where was preserved sacredly the old punctilious tradition of Spain. I had never been treated rudely by a man, and this was rudeness beyond anything that I had ever imagined could exist. My temper got the best...
...child first laugh aloud?" "When should a child walk alone?" "How many teeth are there in the first set?" "Why should mothers nurse their children?" "Is rocking (in sleep) necessary?" "How much crying is normal for a very young baby?" "What is the cry of pain?-of hunger?-of temper?-of illness?-of indulgence or habit...