Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The G. O. P. The Republican party was genuinely "stunned" but it soon recovered poise. Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington observers, pictured the G. O. P. proper as a body of hard-working politicians like Senators Smoot, Willis and David A. Reed, Secretary Mellon, Vice President Dawes, Frank O. Lowden...
The proposals of the U. S. and British delegations at the Three Power Naval Limitations Parley in Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) seemed last week like the statements of a man and wife who love each other at heart but have decided to get a divorce on the ground...
The whole "incompatibility of temperament" thus resolved into a quarrel about what size and number of ships should be allotted to each nation within the agreed tonnage.*
The New York Times took an amused and friendly view, calling the photographers' retreat a "good-humored" one and the plate-throwing an imperious "bit of temperament."
"I carried a revolver charged with poisoned dumdum bullets and also a hand grenade which I had saved from the War. I intended either to shoot Mussolini or to bomb him, whichever seemed surest of success. ... I told none of my friends. I had no accomplices. I just threw the...