Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With all the gay spirit of her name, "Zaza" dances and twirls her petticoats and darts exciting French eyes to the farthest corners of the University Theatre. As a vivacious music-hall entertainer, Claudette Colbert finds a part suited to her temperament, and handles her high kicks and train of...
Lawrence quarreled as often with "the Danes" as with anyone else. But for them his brilliant talk and warm-hearted moments more than offset his erratic temperament. Besides, the morning after a tantrum he always appeared bearing a peace-offering of bread and cakes of his own baking.
Last week, in the title role of Ambroise Thomas' archaic Mignon, pretty, dark-haired Rise Stevens showed herself to be much more than a run-of-the-mill operatic debutante, sang with mature taste and acted her part with full-blown operatic temperament. For her, even the morosest critic...
"These individuals" are four. Adolf Hitler is the World's No. 1 anti-Semite by temperament and conviction, whose intimate friend Julius Streicher publishes Der Stunner, the grossly fanatical No. 1 anti-Semitic newsorgan of the world. No. 3 Nazi Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels is a part-time virtuoso...
Along with these portraits Philosopher Edman does not neglect philosophical morals, which consist mainly of advice not to become panicky about the way the contemporary world is going. Spinoza, he points out, went on grinding lenses for a living while war and revolution raged around him in Holland, and Santayana...