Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The American Weekly has found its place and made its case. . . . But neither my temperament nor career can be satisfied with a situation that hereafter demands so little personal action. My energies and imagination must have fuller play. . . . And so I have tendered my resignation, turned the ship back to...
Old John Pybus, who had never understood his sons, disowned them for slacking during the War. But that war made them rich, and him so poor that he had to sell his musty bookshop and take a job finally as porter in a suburban hotel. Here his grandson, Lance, discovers...
The Story. They were seven; all ages, all colors of hair and temperament, all genetically termed "the Wheater Children." To sort them out, Martin Boyne, bachelor, 46, by chance their fellow traveler, required many whispered conferences with Nurse Scopy of the iron hand and grey cotton glove. This worthy soul...
The Poem. Rustic Homer and urban Virgil used roundly to invoke the muses before composing an epic. Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, however, narrowly and specifically invokes the "American Muse," by crying, "you are the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost ... a friend, an enemy, a sacred hag with two...
Died. Jewell, 97, elephant, for 40 years (1838-78) a Barnum & Bailey trouper until his attacks of "temperament" made touring dangerous; by his keeper's shot, paralysis of the trunk having developed; at the Central Park Zoo, Manhattan.