Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl. He has none of Huey's wild, magnetic appeal. At 53 he is a soft, dumpy man with a mushy voice, a flaccid handshake, a venomous temper and the general bearing of a small-town pool-hall operator. Crowds bother him and he cannot hide a furtive wariness when job seekers approach him. He is a dedicated horseplayer-who makes two dollar bets. But he has the "Long Look" and a shrewd insight into the mind of Louisiana's tobacco-chewing common...
That saved Huey and made him a national figure. Earl, beaded with the righteous sweat of his endeavors, thought he deserved higher honors. But Huey paid no attention. For one thing, Earl's wild temper and mode of fighting made him unpopular. During the impeachment proceedings he sank his teeth into one legislator's throat, and chewed until he was pulled off. Later, one Frank P. Krieger complained that Earl had all but bitten his finger off. Also, Huey seemed to have had doubts about Earl's political savvy...
While recessed House members gathered to watch the battle, McCarthy argued with rising temper: "I have been informed that the House leaders will not take public housing or slum clearance." That was all mild-mannered Charles Tobey needed. Pointing to the visitors, he shouted: "Who is this House leadership . . . this triumvirate in the House which has the power to say 'They shall not pass...
Having smashed 24 bones and lost a leg on the race track, Bronco Bill Schindler at 39 has learned to temper daring with discretion. Now president of the American Racing Drivers Club, which controls about 375 chauffeurs, he is a leading advocate of stricter racing rules, better machines, four-wheel brakes...
Flophouse Night. Her temper trapped her into fits of firing & hiring that she sometimes later regretted. "The trouble with me," she once reflected, "is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch. I just cannot have friends for more than six months." She had to drink, she said, "because I have to forget all the mean things I have done...