Word: temperance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most violent of the New Deal's "young Turks," but his personal life has been in every instance conservatively planned. A mild man who chews his cigars, wears horn-rimmed spectacles and sports a zippered sport jacket on the job. Schwellenbach is studious by temperament but short of temper; judicial-minded but a bear at partisan politics; labor-minded but with a sense of fairness to industry. He is also a man who did not want the job of Labor Secretary: he took it on the urging of his old Senate crony, now the President...
...Washington had thought it was high time that the President and his Democratic majority had a high old time together. Congress was showing signs of going into a fractious mood. Last week, it had sawed down the President's unemployment compensation plan, and it was testing its temper against more controversial measures coming up. By all factions in Congress Harry Truman was still one of the best liked of all Presidents, but he had undeniably lost some of his early acceptance on the Hill. It was time for the pouring of oil on waters and of water on bourbon...
Congress met on a day edgy with temper. Speakers and audience alike were tense. Outside it rained. Inside the crowd sat jampacked in steamy heat. The speeches began, but nobody heard them-the loudspeaker system had failed. Electricians fingered frantically while tempers rose. Finally Nehru began to talk. After a few words the loudspeakers failed again. The Pandit raged at a frightened Indian electrician: "Foolish man!" The day fizzled out in fiasco...
...musicians were irate at being told off in public, but Sir Adrian budged not an inch: "If the public were eavesdropping they had no right at all. ... I was not nasty and I did not lose my temper, as perhaps I have to do once every five years...
Subject of countless and traditional stories, some apocryphal and some unfit for publication, Professor Warren's violent temper caused him at one time to be called "Ferdinand." He once told a student, "You're in very shallow water, but you're sinking fast...