Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...innovations will add zest to a game that depends on fast foot work, for next to the traditional banana skin, a well placed puddle of water can accelerate matters to an exceptional degree. This should inject some humor into a game which formerly has depended too much on the temper of the players. And squash will not be the first sport which has descended to slipshod practices...
...wife; Tim O'Meara tells his sons how his great diplomatic ancestor tickled the fancies of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary; the Old Soak exudes a tale of spiritual wickedness and liquor in high places; the powerful Katinka in a circus has a heart of gold but a terrible temper when annoyed. Ultimately the old story about the glass-eater is put in print. It is a poor finale, for this hoary anecdote belongs with the one about the man with the beard, and Chic Sale's The Specialist. No bedtime story, it finds itself uncomfortable between these stiff...
...Krutch, the author of "Edgar Allan Poe" and "The Modern Temper", spoke Sunday night at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, where his subject was "The Drama from Ibsen to O'Neill...
...this sex sympathy which has enabled her to untie many heretofore tightly tangled Elizabethan knots. Embracing the political implications of the virgin's reign - the development of England's insularity, the alienation of the continent-she fails however to suggest as strongly as did Strachey the lusty temper of the times, the era gorgeous with talent, studded with awesome genius. But she establishes herself again as an acute, comprehensive, sometimes vivid biographer, well-equipped to develop her summary of Elizabeth-"Her reign was a marriage, and the nation was her child...
Though the story may be apocryphal in detail, it well suggests the temper of Harkness giving. His frequent and princely donations to education and charity have always been unobtrusive, modest. In philanthropy he does not bunch his hits as do the Rockefellers, but scatters gifts of $100,000 or more to dozens of causes and institutions. Sometimes he gives to institutions he has never seen. Though the complete listing of the Harkness benefactions would stretch over columns, these are representative, most of them recent...