Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early in the week cables from Arica envisioned a complete abandonment of the Commission's labors and made much of the alleged "slight" to General Pershing. Later the situation quieted. General Pershing was reported to have kept his temper and assured Seņor Edwards that the, plebiscite will be hastened on the arrival of seven U. S. officers despatched last week to Arica to aid in securing an impartial vote...
...chime of bells recently installed in un uptown church. Just when the nurse gets the baby to sleep, five o'clock strikes with much metallic prelude; and by the time the miracle is once more accomplished, the chime strikes the quarter with such gusto that the child's temper is permanently ruined. There is a great deal of romance about bells; but is not fully evident anywhere within a radius of half a mile...
Harvard has done two things of advantage to the country. One directly. It has taken its defects as any gentleman should, in good temper and without excuses and recriminations, something rather unusual among our colleges and has brought home to the public the truth we have just been discussing. Manchester Union
...University football squad, for whose entertainment an evening at the Tremont theatre had been planned, yesterday failed to witness "The Cocoanuts" because of the cupidity of an officious police officer and the unreasonable temper of the Tremont theatre's business manager...
Before leaving, Manager Osborne and N. S. Howe 26 tried to ascertain the number of the police officer, but when the latter was asked civilly for this information, he completely lost his good temper and fairly shouted, "Get out before I call the patrol wagon...