Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undoubtedly, the mating of two persons with marked similar talent in music, art or politics will produce offspring endowed with the same talent. But, "clanbred talent" tends to produce experts with a decided lack of understanding of things outside their own sphere. Such progeny are likely to be dull and...
Mr. Kreutzberg is the better technician--there were few who denied that. His gestures have a definiteness, a clarity, that Miss Georgi's lacked. But inspired as they are in much the same way by the same sort of thing, they make an ideal pair, and Miss Georgi makes up...
Such an electoral law as that now in force in Mexico, which makes the first nine voters to reach the polling booth into an electoral committee with supervision over the voting is morally certain in a country of the temperament of Mexico to result in outbreaks and rioting. Perhaps if...
Fritzi Scheff, prima donna, prospered but Husband von Bardeleben went into bankruptcy with his postcard & valentine business. Soon after came a divorce and Novelist John Fox Jr. (Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Trail of the Lonesome Pine) succeeded him, was in turn succeeded by her manager, George Anderson, who was...
Nevertheless, it was no sinecure that the new ambassador was taking over. Even discounting the anti-Machado petition as representing a volatile temperament influenced by a political and personal bias, there still remained the injured U. S. citizens and their grievances against the Cuban state. The five chief cases, each...