Word: temperance
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...Lord Chief Justice of England, rolypoly Baron Hewart has a viciously humorous temper, flies into apoplectic rages at any rumor that he may resign: "I'll never resign! I'll never retire!! Never, never as long as I live...
England. King Henry II of England (1133-89) was a coarse, bull-necked man of capricious temper, with a talent for statesmanship and a passion for territorial expansion. Deciding to correct abuses on the part of the ecclesiastical courts, he began well by declaring at Clarendon Palace his "Constitutions of Clarendon" which imposed reasonable restraints, but he fell out with Thomas a Becket, the up-&-coming young churchman whom he had promoted to be Archbishop of Canterbury. The resulting imbroglio with the Church was too hot for King Henry to handle; he ate crow and purchased absolution from the Pope...
...York, Mayor LaGuardia sought to temper his aide's sharp words with some soft ones of interpretation. Said he: "It is just a matter of the men defending themselves when they are attacked?that's what the Commissioner meant. They are working against a desperate condition. The department has lost six men in the last six months and four more are dying...
Because Director Force's taste is as impeccable as her temper is robust, the Whitney biennial has acquired, with the passing years, an added importance. It has become about as accurate a thermometer as critics have to show the temperature and trends of current U. S. painting. Reading the Whitney thermometer as of last week it might be said that abstract painters and technical experimenters are rapidly vanishing. Most present-day artists are now concerned with such Americana as lynching, unemployment, militarism, middle-class stupidity, lower-class squalor. Dozens of able artists have in 1934 found bread lines...
...quizzes are in the offing or not. Likewise the demand is further accentuated by the fact that reading in these courses is usually so extensive as to make it impossible for the average, student to acquire his own outfit. The situation is such, in short, that much time and temper are lost waiting for the desired volume to reappear upon the shelves...