Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sits up in bed with her uncovered back to the audience and says to her husband, who is standing naked against the wall: "Harry, you could get arrested for what you just did." "Love," says Harry, "can make you do strange things." Replies the violated Vera, with almost maidenly temper: "Give me hate any time...
...lieutenant and a 13-year-old chorine. When she was seven, Eliza's father died of cholera in India. Shipped home to Scotland, the child appalled her stepfather's Presbyterian parents by running naked through the streets. Hustled off to school in Paris, she perfected a homicidal temper and a gift for languages. At 19, she eloped to Ireland with a lieutenant named Thomas James, who soon ran off with a captain's wife. Eliza changed her name to Lola Montez, and under the protection of two great and good friends, Lord Malmesbury and Lord Brougham, made...
...black shirt and white tie of Killer Richard Widmark in the movie Kiss of Death. He saw the movie so many times he knew all its lines. He spent hours in front of a mirror, trying to look as tough as Widmark-and he succeeded. He had a mercurial temper and acted out his movie fantasies as the crudest of the Gallo brothers...
...essay at the age of 36. His younger sister would certainly have agreed. In a biography of her famous brother soon to be published, along with other personal and some technical papers, by the Princeton University Press, the late Maja Winteler-Einstein tells about the prodigy's terrible temper, which caused his whole face-minus the tip of his nose-to turn yellow. Albert frightened off a violin teacher by throwing a chair at her, hurled a bowling ball at his sister, and in one fit of rage tried to "knock a hole" in her head with...
...Wallace the campaigner. The man who once declared that he would "out-nigger" anybody on the stump, whose most durable public image was blocking the schoolhouse door to blacks, seldom lets a racist tinge color his rhetoric these days. The shift is partly a response to the more moderate temper of the times in the South, partly a reflection of the fact that he no longer needs to. George Wallace has become his own code word; his people know where he stands, and his country style permits infinite shadings of nuance and allusion. Today he could never give his "segregation...