Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opinion that the dispute was political, not racial. Said he: "Doubtless in the heat of the Cardinal campaign some opposition to individual Jews has been expressed, but I feel sure that this opposition has not extended further than to specific individuals. I have found no anti-Semitic trend or temper in any of my conferences. . . . Because the last two elected editors do not happen to be Wisconsin-born, the feeling has grown that they represent an eastern class-struggle point of view rather than the liberal Wisconsin tradition...
...story. But with its generous length (649 pages), plot and number of characters, its easy. Dickensian narrative, a fortifying moral, the story carries its own self-comforting device- not unlike the jet of oil that plays on high-speed emery wheels to prevent tools losing their temper...
...just as archaic diction seems false, so does archaic temper, and living poets' art must be as "contemporaneous as our banking or our locomotion." In the modern world people seek "isolated perfections" in the different realms of human life, poets no less than others. Professor Ransom deplores this, because it makes the beauty of "pure" poetry cloistered and the beauty of "obscure" poetry teasing and evasive. As a means of bringing poetry back to the position it once held, he suggests that writers study those elements in human experience that cannot be dissociated. But, he says, he makes...
...rivers of our national life will flow onward and not backward. Change as such one need not fear. It is the temper in which changes are born that matters. That temper implies a readiness to recognize the claims of others to civilized living, a willingness to submit the means for the attainment of that end to the traditional methods of discussion and debate, and an avowal so to arrange our institutional life as to make it realize, so far as humanly possible, the content of the new and growing liberty...
Sued for Divorce. John Randolph Hearst, 28, third son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst; by his second wife, Gretchen Wilson Hearst; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Grounds: that he has a violent and ungovernable temper...