Word: temperance
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Hoffman, controlling his temper, replied, "That is an absolute falsehood." He did not know the man "from Adam's off ox ... I did not offer...
...interesting exergesis from various sources in Church literature, and reads very much like a reactionary Communist Manifesto. It is a program which has never been set forth by the American Catholic Church, and many Catholic clerics, according to Mr. Blanshard's own sources, agree neither with the temper of the thought, or the dogmatic authentication of the sources from which it is derived. Some clerics do agree, and the cases of Quebee and Spain certainly provide strong arguments for the possibility of compromise between Catholicism and fascism. But the blanket implications which Mr. Blanshard draws are politically naive. The social...
...give up my bad temper. I'll not give up my passions. I've enjoyed them far too much to put them away. I'll not give up my prejudices . . . the very foundation of my strength and vigour...
Only six of the 25 children she studied ever let off emotional steam through the safety valve of temper tantrum. They were "good children" who bottled up their emotions, cracked up later when they were about to finish school and face the world. Vienna-trained Dr. Tietze did not live to see her report published; on May 7, she died, at 39, from cancer...
...gauged the temper of mild, white-haired Federal Judge Albert L. Reeves with the eye of a mule trader sizing up a parson; after that he did everything but shoot off firecrackers under the judge's nose. He objected incessantly. He told bad jokes. He brayed, waved his arms, and quoted the Bible with enthusiastic piety. On one of those rare occasions when the judge reproved him, he replied obsequiously, "Beggars mustn't be choosers and I'm happy to get what you're gonna give me ... I subside." Then he would continue as before...