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Word: temperamental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blue-Shirted | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

Big feet and big ears indicate an amiable temperament and have some mysterious connection with the brain.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brain Facts | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

"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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Posthumous | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dizzying | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insulted by Britain | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

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