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Word: temperance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Relatively unimportant to success in marriage are table manners, agreement about religion or possession of an even temper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Marriage Test | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...others. For a big faction of the A. F. of L. Executive Council is eager to expel the now "suspended" C. I. O. unions. Indeed, Mr. Green and the rest of the A. F. of L. Executive Council were in Miami to ponder just such action. And their temper was not improved by another cavalier peace offer from John Lewis. With tongue in cheek he purred to his Mine Workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Miners v. Miami | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...chimpanzee mating call. Ape Josephine first looked startled, then so pleased that Ape George, becoming angry, shouldered his mate from the phone, pulled frantically at the cage's bars. With a sharp cough-like cry, Castang cursed George. George cursed Castang. Castang, with a show of temper, roared a warning that drove both George & Josephine cringing to a corner. The trainer then laughed with giggle-like simian laughter and the conversation closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Chats with Chimpanzees | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Divorced. Faye Albertson Lippmann; from Pundit Walter Lippmann; in Bradenton, Fla. Grounds: extreme cruelty, a violent, ungovernable temper (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 20, 1937 | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

Gaunt, bony Mr. Culbertson combines the hottest temper in a hot-tempered business with the exquisite politeness of a cinematic headwaiter. One day in 1923 he met a young woman whose skill at bridge so astounded him that he asked her to marry him. Soon Mr. Culbertson started to write about bridge as well as play it. Mrs. Culbertson gave lessons to anyone who could afford her remarkable fee of $40 an hour. Together they made about $30,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Culbertsons, Inc. | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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