Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...physician is always closeted with him privily for five or ten minutes before he makes a public appearance or speech of any kind. Intimates of the House of Stresemann profess to know that the doctor spends these five-minute periods in reminding the statesman that he must curb his temper, eschew his favorite fiery oratory, conserve his strength...
...Hoover sentiments seemed calculated to soothe the social temper of Argentina as he had found it. After touching upon the civic splendors he had been shown, he asked permission "to sound a convincing note of faith and hope in the future of humanity." He described himself to his hearers: "It has been no part of mine to build castles of the future but rather to measure the experiments, the actions and the progress of men through the cold and uninspiring microscope of fact, statistics and performance." Then he said he really believed that "the Western World stands upon the threshold...
West were Secretaries Davis of War and Jardine of Agriculture, who are also Power Commissioners. But if the decision goes against Senator-resigned du Pont, their presence will not greatly temper the Senate's disapproval of Mr. Insull and the Insull lawyer, Secretary West. Senator-resigned du Pont is, moreover, a Republican; so his Senator friends may feel free to transgress strict party allegiance in a vote on Secretary West...
Even the Spectator lost its temper, and the Times required a full week to recover its equanimity. An early Times editorial declared that President Roosevelt once said, "We needed Panama and we took it," and argued that the meaning of President Coolidge's speech is: "When America needs territory she takes it, and when she wants warships she builds them...
...known. Student of chemistry, physics, biology, his scientific mind repeatedly comes to the rescue of emotions that have been too quick to accept a new theory. Honest, he is not afraid to satirize opinions he himself has passionately held. His wit is sharpest when he is in a temper (in person or in print), but he is a good listener and efficient host-unusual virtues for a man of genius. At 62, his intellectual vitality is almost equalled by his physical energy-his father was a professional cricketer...