Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Temperament Bothers Managers
His best obituary came from his own mouth. Nearing 90, he was asked how he had lived so soundly. He mentioned his exercises (rowing had been his favorite), his moderate diet, and his temperament. The temperament was "a calm temperament, expectant of good."
Last year she took the national cup for the third time and now holds it as her own. The papers have been prodigal in reporting her recent doings-how she won many tinkling little Riviera tournaments and lost to Suzanne Lenglen and got appendicitis. She made no apologies for that...
Charged with murder there was brought before the Paris Court of Assize last week M. Berthelin, one of the greatest of French chefs. He spoke with verve and passion in his own defense: "This creature Davillard, my dishwasher, my scullion, what did he do that I should stab him in...
Count Bruga's tragedy is experiencing crises of incontinence in public or crowded places. Now it is at an occult buffet supper-after stuffing his poet's paunch with other people's helpings, he addresses his advances to his hostess, an elderly madam. He lands in the...