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Word: temperamental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Fauntleroy, and a wild west show-girl before she was 16. She made her reputation when she took Elsie Ferguson's place in Outcast. She has earned more than $2,000,000 by acting but has not got it now. Famed for her Temperament, her 30 pedigreed Schnauzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

His death seems the more untimely because it is only recently that he has been prevailed upon by his friends to undertake the recording, at greater length than is afforded by periodicals, of his views on many aspects of the world's pressing economic problems. Those writings which he has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALLYN ABBOTT YOUNG | 3/8/1929 | See Source »

Brother Lammot?tall and serious?his hair neatly parted on one side?peering through spectacles?is in many ways a slim edition of massive brother Pierre. But they differ in temperament. Lammot is a worker, a studious realist, where Pierre is a creative planner, an expansive idealist. Like Pierre's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: G. M. C.'s Chair | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

When asked if the League could operate successfully without the participation of the United States, Sweetser said that the United States is at present lending a great deal of cooperation, both through the government and through individual citizens. He traced the evolution of America's relations to the League, saying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: League of Nations, Proposed Ten Years Ago Today, is Center of Moral Pressure, Says Sweetser--U.S. Helpful | 2/14/1929 | See Source »

Differences in customs, and even in language, are sufficient to mark the American Rhodes Scholar off as a foreigner at first. Yet he, and his colleagues from the Dominions, soon adapt themselves to the ways of Oxford, and, on the whole, fit well into the life of the University. Naturally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RHODES SCHOLARS UPHELD BY CORRY | 1/9/1929 | See Source »

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