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Word: temperamental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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People! Nov. 18! Ethel Barrymore and a cargo of Bronx cheers for every performance! Of all the - -* women she undoubtedly takes the highest honors. In truck drivers it is temper, in artists it is temperament. . . . A lady, gad!

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1935 | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

Historian. As a young man Mark Sullivan was vastly impressed by the late Harry Thurston Peck's brilliant history of the contemporary U. S., Twenty Years of the Republic (1885-1905). Years later after seeing many a U. S. political event from the inside, Journalist Sullivan began to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: An Average American | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

Play, Genius, Play! (by Judith Kandel; Lew Cantor, producer) is another Sin & Temperament drama. A violinist who tires of fiddling, seeks surcease in the apartment of one of his brother's friends. The friend happens to be a lady in satin pajamas named Didi, and she gives him surcease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 11, 1935 | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

Sad by temperament, few football coaches have developed the technique of taciturn uncertainty to the point reached by Dana X. Bible of the University of Nebraska. President of the American Football Coaches' Association, athletic director at Nebraska, with a lifetime record of 124 games won, 30 lost, 12 tied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 21, 1935 | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

The scene opens at Jalna where the Whiteoaks are seated at dinner. As they pass plates of food from one to another around the table their individual traits make themselves felt--the matriarchal acerbity of "gran", the quiet strength and friendliness of Ronny, and the weakness and temperament of young...

Author: By L. P. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

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