Word: temperance
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...Washington correspondent who has worked for the New York Times eleven years, proudly carries in her handbag the press card which admitted her to the War Department during World War I. Said she: since the press had already made an appeal for unity, did not Mr. Ickes want to "temper" his statement...
...again. Dejected, inconsolable, Steve Early gloomed in Washington, fearful that he might have cost his boss the election. Besides committing a first-rate political blunder, he had misbehaved in a way no decent citizen should. But for once newsmen were sorry for him, blaming it all on his hot temper...
...Miss R'Treece" has frowsy blonde hair, flashing blue eyes and (by her own admission) a violent temper. When, aged 23, she started her school in Wallingford, Conn., she had no college degree but very definite educational notions. British-born and a militant feminist, she decided that girls should get no more coddling than boys, set out to establish a girls' Eton. Her motto: "No rot." Her program: athletics for all, self-government, hard work...
...Japanese as he does not fear and respect them, drank with Foreign Minister Kensuke Matsuoka, Italian Ambassador Mario Indelli and Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop's special envoy Heinrich von Stahmer to the future of the three-way pact. But last week there was mostly a show of temper in Tokyo. The opening of the Burma Road...
Growl and Grumbles. Churchill's growl still set the keynote of his people's temper. He still rode high in their affections as war leader, but there was also a grumble, which CBS Broadcaster Edward (christened Egbert) Murrow defined as coming from caste-conscious Britons who were beginning to realize that "all are equal under the bomb...