Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A Byzantine eunuch is a symbol of strength compared with the Teachers' Oath Bill, in which nowhere can one find the slightest penalty provided for its violation. Evidently the statesmen of Massachusetts believe that the wish is the father to the thought, and that once the virtue of patriotism has...
Before last week's fight, sportswriters were inclined to think that Joe Louis might some day win the world's heavyweight championship. When it was over they took it for granted. If and when he becomes heavyweight champion-by beating Max Schmeling next September, then Max Baer, and...
At that point Secretary Roper, who was anxious to get the charade over with so the Senate would confirm his fellow-South Carolinian J. Monroe Johnson as the new Assistant Secretary of Commerce, took the stand. To him his ousted assistant was "of an exceedingly suspicious temperament," responsible for "a...
It would be fairer to judge Cuba's propensity for strikes and revolutions on an economic rather than racial basis. Attempts to find the cause in Latin temperament are interesting speculation but do not present the whole picture. Cuba's constant dissatisfaction with government is firmly grounded in its extensive...
But to Franklin Roosevelt he is a valuable midway man: to bring order out of the NRA's adolescent chaos, to bring it peace instead of contention in the public prints. For Clay Williams has not the temperament to promote stormy scenes and he never has anything of importance...