Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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One of their number, M. Jacques Arthuys, harangued the gathering as follows: "Salvation is in Fascism! Certainly not in disciplined and formalized black-shirted Italian Fascism, but in Fascism adapted to the thoughtful and measured French temperament-less of words than of action."
Big feet and big ears indicate an amiable temperament and have some mysterious connection with the brain.
"Mr. Wilson was devoured by the desire for power. If he had been a soldier and a man of fighting temperament, the Government of the United States would have been in grave danger. He was obstinate and up to a certain point determined, but he was not a fighting man...
LIFE BEGINS TOMORROW-Guide de Verona (Translated by Isabel Grazebrook) - Button $2.00). The emotional and stylistic tumult of this book will quite dismay the normal reader. It is an attempt to plumb terrific abysses, to scale sheer pinnacles of human nature; and the author, dizzied by exertion, indulges a hot...
So, by a quirk of fate, Premier Baldwin was even then "giving offense" to Mussolini in the following words: "I have been told that this country wants a Mussolini. I have great respect for the chief minister of a great country like Italy, but I know the temperament of my...