Word: temperance
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Recognizing that all Germans are not "bad" and that their conduct was partially not of their own volition, the powers that finally dispose of Germany's future should temper their firmness with merey. But they should not be either weak or apologetic. Germany should be reconstructed in a fashion best suited to promote peace. Maudlin sympathy, such as Mr. White drools, should not be permitted to sheme Americans into letting Germany write its own ticket...
...Elgin, they tell how one day Dick Clelland, the barber, lost his temper. Clelland, tired of having boys mess up his shop window with dirty fingers, rushed out, razor in hand, and kicked a boy who was waiting for a bus. Prince Philip turned and asked: "Pray, sir, for what do I receive this kick?" (At least, that is what Morayshiremen, who know how a Prince ought to talk, say Philip said...
Aggie can keep up with the boys at drinking and cussing, and sometimes does. She rarely loses her temper, but when she does the effect is spectacular; she once beat a city editor over the head with a cold, dead barracuda (TIME, July 29). Her hair usually looks as though it had been combed by a vacuum cleaner, and her clothes are often baggy. Except for a secret, feminine and justifiable pride in her Jegs, she has no time for vanity. The divorced mother of two grown children, 45-year-old Aggie likes to cook (her specialty: spaghetti), but would...
...Better watch that temper of yours, son," old Mom Murphy had said. The killer, shaken with remorse, sank to his knees on the kitchen floor. "Darling," he sobbed, "I loved you. I always loved you." He gathered the "limp little body" in his arms, caressed it, "covered it with kisses." It was too late for kisses. Napoleon, the Murphy family parrot, was dead...
Jimmy Murphy, 25, had just knocked Napoleon across the kitchen with a baseball bat. Jimmy, a single-minded lush, had a frightful temper. Sometimes, according to Author Natalie Anderson Scott, he was capable of "smiling humorously," but more often anger "twisted his handsome face" and corrupted his "sweet, childish mouth." He swindled, stole, played fast & loose with girls-among them an artist named Kay, and Dolores, who wore sables and "went around adjusting herself" (Dolores could "adjust herself in a thrice"). Jimmy peddled dope, knifed his sister, beat up his mother, hocked the family goods. But his mother loved...