Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breathless days, the U.S. people got an idea of how their new President would carry on: Harry Truman was quick, decisive, seemed to have a talent for working hard without getting confused or losing his temper...
Greer Garson let her temper simmer to a slow boil when a Hollywood stocking manufacturer claimed that she was bowlegged, had to wear padded stockings. Green-eyed, Oscar-winning Cinemactress Garson said that the only picture in which she showed her legs full-length was Random Harvest, insisted: "Those were my own legs . . . there were no complaints from the paying customers...
...about his early years. Men never told of him, as they did of Washington, historically doubtful but socially significant anecdotes about his truthfulness and strength. They never told the poignant stories that they told of Lincoln's hardships and humor, or even of Andrew Jackson's fiery temper and defiance...
...Thursday they branched out, raiding in the suburbs and questioning ice-cutting crews on the St. Lawrence River. At first the people considered it all good fun. But as the raids went on, the temper of the people changed...
...wrote Indignant Citizen to the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat. Indignant Citizen had been roused by a characteristic Peglerian display of calculated bad temper, in which Pegler accused Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal of "a dangerous conspiracy . . . to abolish the freedom of the whole people." The Tallahassee paper, well aware that everybody talks about Pegler but nobody does anything about him, said it would take a vote if enough readers demanded one. The demands quickly filled three columns. Among them...