Word: temperance
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...descriptions of the Bolshevist menace, there remains still an undercurrent of red baiting in several states which is reminiscent of the shameful violations of civil liberties that followed the last Armistice. the Oklahoma criminal syndicalism case is a test case, in a sense, for it may determine the whole temper and atmosphere of civil liberties for the duration of the crisis, and for the period of local reaction against Communism which may follow this...
This is not a glorified college frat proposition, nor a Sun Valley rest camp, but we do try to temper a necessarily stringent military schedule with a portion of hospitality and good will--and the Harvard faculty and students contribute much toward making your stay here as enjoyable as possible under the circumstances...
Gloom & Quibbles. This tepid resolve was miles behind the temper of the British people. It came little nearer to satisfying the House, including a sizable number of Churchill Conservatives. Forty Tories, led by handsome Viscount Hinchingbrooke M.P., demanded that a Ministry of Social Security be established at once. Liberal insurgents headed by gaunt, good Wilfrid Roberts similarly wanted a new ministry and "earliest possible legislation." Angry Laborites denounced the Government's policy, urged "reconsideration of that policy with a view to the early implementation of the Plan...
Trips to the Mediterranean served only to reinforce Mencken's native temper. At the Vatican he inserted himself among the pilgrims and impudently kissed the apostolic ring of Pius X. Jerusalem he deplored for its "crude pottery of the thunder-mug species." The Holy Sepulcher he found obviously "bogus ... for unless Joseph of Arimathea was a reincarnation of Samson no one could imagine him rolling a stone large enough to close it." Mencken was full of sympathy for the British soldier who "spoke in favorable terms of the destruction of [Jerusalem] by the Romans in the year...
...oratory that boomed across the legislative halls of the country's State capitols last week was rich and idiomatic, troubled with thought and sprinkled with barnyard humor. But it was also more than that: better than the voices in Congress, it reflected the temper of the U.S. people in all its variety...