Word: temperance
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...Symbolic Temper. Through all but five of the last 210 years a Cavendish, or a relative of one, has represented West Derbyshire. In 1918 the family lost the seat to White's father. In 1923 Lord Hartington's father, now the Duke of Devonshire, regained it for the Cavendishes. In last week's contest, Churchill intervened with an explosive plea for Cavendishes & Coalition: "It would indeed be a disaster if Britain, after the great things she has done, went to pieces and fell into petty squabbles. . . . These by-elections are . . . symbolic and electors by their votes...
...editors take no sides between Progressive educators (TIME, July 5) and their Essentialist opponents (TIME, Sept. 13), print articles by leaders of both camps. Sample topics: educational goals and incentives, the project method, temper tantrums, audio-visual aids, the elective system, the Chicago Plan, aeronautical education...
...that she married a transient soldier the night before-his name was something, she recalls, like Private Ratzkywatzsky. Presently she also realizes that she is pregnant. Fond as she is of her widower Poppa (William Demarest), she knows better than to confide in him; he has the worst film temper since the twilight of the Keystone Cops. But her young sister Emily (Diana Lynn) knows precisely what Trudy must do. She must marry Norval before he knows what...
...Goebbels, he was a frustrated man of questionable intellect. Few, if any, of his fellow "intellectuals" could so absorb themselves in the life of the Party, so readily sacrifice to this chosen duty the pleasures and comforts of life. Above all, none could so meticulously appraise the exact temper of an audience, and then bend it to his will...
...Christmas visits back home had not changed the mood and temper of Congress: it was still angrily anti-Administration, still without any constructive program...