Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeing deeper, perhaps, than most of his associates, Taximan Hazard has hacked New York for almost nine years. He knows the personality, the temperament of all the biggest city's corners. His small book relates episodes of his days and nights on the street, not the story of his life...
"You must remember that you have been chosen because of certain qualifications. The most important of these is sobriety. No officer in France must indulge in intoxicants. You will be subject to the most minute observation. Any officer who drinks will be immediately dismissed from the Service. . . . You must keep...
"Today it seems to me that the besetting sin of the Associated Press is its worship of authority. This is in no small measure due to the personal attitude of Messrs. Noyes and Ochs. Mr. Noyes is a resident of the District of Columbia where his newspaper . . . depends for its...
More discriminating than Edgar Allen, however, are the students at Dartmouth who have condemned the somewhat unadulterated tintinabulation manufactured in the belfry of their Baker Library as monotonous and not delightful, despite what Poe may have written on the subject. Hence an administration evincing praise-worthy reverence for the primadonna...
Since the success of the house plan either at Yale or Harvard depends eventually on its attraction for the students, it is impossible to dismiss this irreverent criticism as of little importance. It deserves analysis and the serious consideration of the authorities. One finds that it is based on the...