Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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People! Nov. 18! Ethel Barrymore and a cargo of Bronx cheers for every performance! Of all the - -* women she undoubtedly takes the highest honors. In truck drivers it is temper, in artists it is temperament. . . . A lady...
...face, almost wooden, sometimes lights up in a crooked smile. Prone to swearing a good deal in a quiet, pleasant way, he never loses his temper, though he is a martinet about detail. When he is in command, his ship must be spotless, his men equally neat. In only one respect is he himself lax-his beard, which is fast-growing, heavy. Hating to shave, he has tried all types of razor, has lately returned to an old-fashioned straightedge...
...inhabitants of a gloomy Manhattan mansion. Marsden had been abused by an equally liquorish father when a child, which accounted for the fiendish campaign he put on to terrify his wife (Barbara Robbins) into giving him a son of his own to torture. Since Marsden makes no effort to temper his dangerous lunacy to the other five members of an excellent cast, they all have good reasons for shooting him. In the middle of the last act some one finally does. This event brings relief from much tedious psychiatry and gratifies those spectators who like melodrama...
Unfortunately the reasons for this college's success hold very little suggestion for the improvement of Harvard College. The idea, in Dr. Morgan's works, was that Antioch should be "concerned with the development of the entire personality of the student in good proportion." To temper academic studies with the discipline and responsibilities of actual life, students spend half their time studying only, and the other half at practical work, generally a job in some business outside the college...
...requirements- before or after the blaze begins. At the Investment Bankers Association convention last week, Economist Benjamin M. Anderson Jr. of Chase National Bank demanded action now, declaring: "It would be a very serious matter indeed if we came into a period of vigorous, active business and strong speculative temper on the part of the American people with anything like the present volume of excess reserves in the hands of the member banks...