Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listens to the debates. His own parliamentary speeches are coldly factual, delivered in the tone of a geometry professor lecturing a dull pupil. His manner changes when he feels he is being wrongly accused or is embarrassed by an opponent's attack. Then the quick St. Laurent temper shows itself; his pink face becomes flushed, his brown eyes flash and he sputters out his reply, emphasizing his words with Gallic arm gestures and nods of his head...
...debate, Mrs. Roosevelt was clearly ahead on points. The subject that provoked the controversy, the cardinal's loss of temper, and her own adroit mode of expression were all in her favor until she gave way to some quiet gloating in her column about the favorable response in her mailbag. Surely, she must have realized that a considerable proportion of this response came from people afflicted with the fault which had been attributed to her and which she was in the process of disowning...
When a $10,000-a-year official of the RFC, John Hagerty, took over the $30,000-a-year presidency of Waltham Watch Co. (TIME, May 9), many a congressional temper flared. For Hagerty, as the RFC's Boston manager, had recommended the $9,000,000 loan (later cut to $6,000,000) that enabled Waltham to reorganize. A Senate committee began digging into the RFC's records, found that the RFC had been an open door to high-salaried jobs in other companies which it had bailed out. In 4½-years, 20 RFC employees had joined...
...eight days at Wellesley, Congregationalists debated resolutions and listened to speeches from their own and visiting churchmen. They heard New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, railing against the Red-hunting temper of the times, urge that "Americans should call a halt before hysteria demands that sermons be submitted to Congressmen before delivery." They were reminded by Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr that Christians "frequently wrongly and self-righteously" blame modern ills upon secularism without confessing that "some of the achievements of democratic society are secular in origin and were attained in the teeth of Christian opposition." They passed...
...girls who follow players around. He was kind of puzzled, though: "I don't know what got into that silly honey. Why pick on a nice guy like me?" After a second operation he learned that Ruth wasn't taking things too hard and lost his temper: "She seems to think this is a joke, but I don't. She should be taken off the streets-the same...