Word: temperance
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Next morning, in another courtroom, Circuit Judge Ernest F. Oakley gave out a separate decision in a civil action, held that Big John Nick had received the money, ordered him to pay the union $10,000. Editor Coghlan's temper boiled over. Into the Post-Dispatch he hurled an angry editorial...
...pays Pundit Krock over $25,000 a year, so Martha Blair can get along without her job. The Times-Herald supports so many female reporters, columnists, critics that Washington newsmen call it "Cissie Patterson's henhouse." Cissie has a weakness for firing her columnists in a fit of temper, then hiring them back at a bigger salary. By week's end, knowing her own failing, Mrs. Patterson had fled to Nassau...
...timing and drafting of legislation. Inexperienced and inept administration. The use by the executive department of persons, with apparently decisive influence on policy, who clearly, even if honestly, disbelieve in the political system of balanced powers and the economic system of regulated free enterprise. An intolerant and vindictive temper on the part of the New Deal leadership that has depressed the morale of the productive forces of the nation's enterprise. But, important as these factors have been, they are relatively secondary...
...shopping crises. He is looked upon as an expert on silk underwear particularly, and hats and gloves less often. Few questions are asked about food, but Sughrue admits that he is singled out continuously for directions to the best bar. Road advice can be aggravating, but he loses his temper only rarely at out-and-out stupidity...
...fancy names all gone, Son No. 5 was named merely Roy. He had all his father's bad temper, and more. A stable-hand saved Billy from his son's wrath one day after a fight; Roy went off, joined the Army, died in a fall downstairs in a Chattanooga hotel...