Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Sothern's indomitable Petruchio is a match for twenty "lusty wenches" of Katharina's temper. From the time he swaggers into Padua with his father's fortune "happily to wine and thrive" to his winning of the wager at Lucentio's banquet, the audience feels the enthusiastic optimism and tough-skinned common sense of this wife tamer. He seems to enjoy so thoroughly his own sermons and bombasts that we can not but enjoy them with...
...argument used so much by their attorneys that they did not strike until assured the city was safeguarded does not hold. If they had known this there would have been no point in striking. They thought they could terrorize the public into submission, but they failed to realize the temper of the people of Boston. Even if the city had been sufficiently protected by the volunteer police force, there is no excuse for them leaving their duty. The soldier who deserts may know some one else will take his place. But that doesn't lessen the disgrace of his desertion...
...dependents of those who fell. For the men in hard circumstances no effort should be spared in securing suitable positions; the country needs every man at some productive post so that he may become a helpful member of the community. Work will do this; gifts will not. Let us temper generosity with good sense...
Apart from all economic considerations the effects of national prohibition on the temper of the laboring classes will be most alarming. Whether it has been scientifically proven that hard work needs a stimulant or not makes no difference to the worker. He believes he needs that stimulant and resents bitterly interference with what he considers his personal liberty. Foreign agitators can seize this opportunity of pointing out that the government of the United States is as despotic as any in Europe and that the only means of salvation for working men is to do away with all government...
With the passage by the Senate of the proposed constitutional amendment granting equal suffrage to women, this great question comes at last before the people of the country for definite ratification or rejection. Judging by the present liberal temper of the American people, it seems entirely probable that they will be true to their best interests, and add the Equal Suffrage Amendment to the organic law of the country...