Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called in the police at the behest of worried Noah Jr., 17: "I want the proper authorities to in- vestigate this matter and prosecute anyone guilty of enticing or luring Mrs. Beery from her home. ... If there was a man involved in the affair, I might lose my temper. Mrs. Beery is a sick woman and has been under the care of an alienist for three years. She is subject to spells of sickness that affect her mind." Next day Mrs. Beery countered that she had been to Nevada with Cinema Director Raymond Wells on "purely a business matter." Added...
Sherston (Sassoon) served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Flintshires (Royal Welch Fusiliers), came through the Somme unhurt and with a Military Cross to his credit. He was shot through the chest by a sniper at the Battle of Arras. He won the M. C. by losing his temper. When a man alongside of him was shot, Sassoon charged the German trench singlehanded, bombing as he went. The Germans thought it was an attack, fled, and Sassoon occupied the abandoned trench. After a while, not knowing what else to do, he came back, found his commanding officer furious. A scheduled...
Students of economic history are wide awake these days. More than ever before it seems to be a fact that bread rules the world. The papers seem to realize how great a part they play in the control of the national temper. For bread and the press seem to be the key notes of the question. Publicity can be controlled by the press and intelligence is learning how to direct the distribution of bread...
...other names to which sportswriters, their superlatives utterly exhausted, have had resort. Before and since his appearance in the golfing firmament in 1916 (one year after Percy), he has had no peer but Percy, and making oneself a mechanically perfect golfer-when one is equipped with temper, indolence, misgivings and other frailties to which robots are heir-is as satisfactory, when accomplished, as it is difficult...
This adder sting touched off Sir Austen Chamberlain, be-monocled, correct and supremely supercilious Peace Prizeman (1926), whilom British Foreign Minister. Wagging a bony forefinger at the Chancellor he cried in shocked protest: "That remark in its tone and temper stands alone in the records of the House! The Right Honorable Gentleman is always ready to impute motives of such a character to the opposition and he has caused 300 gentlemen to sit up all night, not to do business, but for his own satisfaction...