Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany the Chancellor (Prime Minister) is expected always to retain his dignity, never to lose his temper. Therefore Dr. Marx stated to the German press with chill reserve the following grave charges...
...life to let an instinct like the sex instinct go was scoffed at by Mr. Fosdick. "Take the instinct of pugnacity," he said, "which is very deep in us. Well go out from this house now, get nearly run over by a car loose your temper, beat up the driver, batter in his head. How will you explain yourself to the judge tomorrow morning? Will you say, 'Your Honor, I am a believer in the new psychology...
After having enjoyed a vivid report of the international white slave trade, which caused more than one delegate to lose his temper, the Council of the League is confronted with the equally spectacular but more difficult task of dealing with the dicator of Poland...
...this & that as eagerly as anyone else, President Coolidge experienced a genuine burst of temper and indignation when, last week, President Pierson and the Chamber again called for a $400,000,000 tax cut. President Pierson said that a referendum of all the Chambers of Commerce had backed their rational executives' program 90% strong. The Chamber was anxious for its tax cut, said President Pierson, even if, combined with big appropriations, it resulted in a deficit. President Coolidge's voice rose and rang bitterly as he called this talk "absurd," especially coming from Business men who apparently were unaware that...
...appeared that Carol's valet, knowing his master's fiery temper, had concealed all knowledge of the theft. He had, two weeks previously, he said, been accosted on the street by an extraordinarily goodlooking young woman. She had invited him to dine and presumably to wine. He accepted the invitation. . . . Next morning, the valet continued, he woke up with a bad headache to discover that the correspondence, including his own, was gone. His letters were subsequently returned, except one which contained the names of people who had visited the Prince at his Orne Villa...