Word: temperance
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...your columns you were careful to mention that ''Conductor Stock prides himself on his restraint. His men have never seen him lose his temper or break a baton." Until the Festival's fourth concert you may have been undisputed on this point, but at that performance, on Friday evening, May 11, the untainted record of the German bandmaster's son was spoiled. It was while Lucrczia Bori was singing Debussy's "Recitative and Aria of Lia," from L'Enfant Prodigitc, that Mr. Stock's hitherto intact baton went sailing in three pieces from...
With few exceptions the Canadian Press attacked Lord Bessborough last week. They pointed- out that to earn his keep a governor general has only to attend the functions to which he is invited and keep his temper. Only critic of Lord Bessborough to surfer was a radio announcer known as Uncle Al, who launched into an impassioned defense of Mary Pickford on the Gooderham & Worts whiskey hour...
...returned from the production of Trader Horn in Africa. In 1928 Edwina Booth, a lithe, lively, insistent blonde, was earning an occasional $7.50 per day as a Hollywood extra. Director W. S. Van Dyke of M-G-M wanted "a milk-white blonde with a brunette's temper, or better yet a redhead's." He recalled that Edwina Booth had "a temper like a spanked cat." She got the job and a contract for $100 per week. Options increased this to $150 a week at the end of a 20-month contract...
...professors in their statements to Chairman Dennett gave their whole-hearted support to the program which had been outlined. They urged that Harvard students rally to the support of the accused men and deplored the "show of temper and unnecessary roughness" of the police...
...excessive violence and little discrimination in handling a crowd made up almost wholly of innocent by standers or of persons present for the purpose of peaceful demonstration Quite apart from the legal rights of the individual concerned, which should be most scrupulously safeguarded. I believe that a show of temper and or unnecessary roughness by the police tended to induce that very spirit of lawlessness which it was designed to suppress...