Word: temperance
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...Kansas City somebody's mother entered a meat shop, was handed a package marked $4.65. "What is it?" she asked. Said the clerk: "A pot roast." She kept on being difficult: "How much does it weigh?" The clerk sighed, kept his temper in a most gentlemanly way, and answered: "Lady, we don't weigh it. We sell it by the piece. Don't you want it?" Then the little lady made the biggest mistake of all. She said...
Such was the temper of the first postwar conference of Britain's Conservative Party, in the hideously gaudy ballroom of Blackpool's Winter Garden. Tired of limp platitudes, the young bloods arose, one after another, to demand clear answers to hard, embarrassing questions. Spearheaded by bright up-&-comer Peter Thorneycroft and bubble-eyed Quintin Hogg, they asked: What is Tory policy on full employment? Do we believe in planning ahead to prevent mass unemployment? Where do we stand on nationalization? In short, what is our policy? From the bandstand, diehard ex-M.P. Sir Herbert Williams made...
...charge of the special agency set up by the Ukrainian Government to handle the distribution of UNRRA supplies. Vassily is a wiry little man with a tired, wizened face and instinctively gentle manners. His expression ordinarily was one of harassed patience. I never once saw him lose his temper, in spite of maddening and innumerable provocations. When they became unendurable, he would merely sigh, run his fingers through his rumpled tussock of greying hair and grit his stainless steel teeth. (That's the usual material for bridgework in the U.S.S.R. because of the shortage of dental porcelain...
...begin their famous battles, and behind them were other tennis greats: Kumagae, the lefthanded Jap; Australia's Norman E. Brookes, Vinnie Richards. On the distaff side Suzanne Lenglen, the greatest girl player ever to swing a racket, had just gained control of her strokes, if not her temper. Helen Wills, a poker-faced youngster, was on her way up, copped the U.S. Nationals in 1923. In the tournament lists were names like Mallory, Bundy and Wightman...
...stock of the company concerned. When Montgomery Ward and American Home Products announced new issues, stockholders went on a selling spree; Monky Ward's stock dropped 21½ points and American Home Products fell 22½ points. A.T. & T. stockholders last week were of the same temper. They looked beyond the $2 billion expansion program (reason for the new financing) to see its effect on A. T. & T. earnings. What they saw was not to their liking. A.T. & T.'s whopping new issue of debentures would collect interest before the distribution of stock dividends. They promptly dumped their...