Word: temperance
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...everything backwards. Congress wanted to go home (see p. 11). Parliament wanted to stay in session. In Washington "Government" whips had tried to keep rebellious Congressmen in session to pass the President's bills. In London Conservative Party whips threatened purges, Prime Minister Chamberlain lost his temper, disgruntled members of the Party in power spoke out in open revolt, Oppositionists cheered signs of a growing split, as the members drew back from the dread prospect of a two-month vacation. The two great organs of Anglo-Saxon democracy imitated each other in the same sense that a blotter carries...
...grind, made a speech which further suggested that, in Europe, religious minorities like the Baptists try to play off governments against established churches. He blamed "the sinister figure of the priest," rather than King Carol, for Baptist troubles in Rumania. He paid his respects to "the intolerant temper of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Spain," but cited Generalissimo Franco's pledges for freedom of worship, which he said he believed...
...accused the hard-money men of returning control of the U. S. dollar to Wall Street's exchange speculators. Secretary Morgenthau announced that U. S. farmers and businessmen had "better start worrying seriously" if the Senate's action stood. Neither announcement improved the Senate's temper. The President returned to Washington from Hyde Park a day early to lead the money fight in person. Only two days remained before midnight June 30, when his money powers expired...
...voraciously-classics, new books, magazines, newspapers -and goes to bed after midnight. He smokes pipes, cigars, cigarets, occasionally takes a drink. Sometimes he gives up smoking for the sake of his health, which is excellent, but his family soon persuades him to start again for the sake of his temper, which is excellent when he has something to smoke. On the radio he listens to practically nothing except Comedian Eddie Cantor...
...Nimes in 1909, young Daladier obtained an appointment as professor of history at Nimes and a fellowship to study in Rome. Professor Daladier, according to his pupils, ran his classes "seriously but without solemnity," had a "horror of sterile academicism." Occasionally he even had a fit of classroom temper and heaved a book at a numskull...