Word: temperance
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...sudden reappearance is fraught with complications, since she is bent on getting a divorce on the strictly technical grounds of adultery and soon is under the delusion that her young man is the professional corespondent for whom she is waiting. Dancer Astaire, the young man. only once loses his temper with Miss Luce, the extremely tempting young woman. With the assistance of Mr. Porter, he outlines some of her bad points...
...limit to the speed with which her fingers could cover the keys. But aside from her technical skill and tremendous vitality, however, the critics found no more in Poldi Mildner than they would have looked for in a 17-year-old acrobat. Their reviews all advised her to temper her fireworks with study, wisdom, restraint, promised her that thus she might go very...
...taken its economic smash with comparative calm. In 1930 when the Depression was still young the electorate swung strongly away from President Hoover and seated a Democratic House to plague him for the next two years. That was the last nation-wide index of the country's temper until the straw polls this autumn. There have been sporadic outbursts of disorder. At England, Ark. stores were raided. Near the Ford plant at Dearborn four persons were killed in an unemployment disturbance. Twenty thousand Bonuseers, marching to Washington last summer, kept the peace until Congress adjourned and might have stayed peaceful...
Despite this retiring temper, the Atlantic has never been provincial, except perhaps in its earliest days. Avoiding the pitfalls of a conceited brahminism, it has always selected and passed on to its readers the best of Boston's achievement, and has succeeded at the same time in representing all sections of the country and the most diverse aspects of its life and civilization. Despite its conservative background, it was consistently and admirably liberal in all fields, from the time of the abolitionists to the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti...
...Bligh, commander of the Bounty, was a man of ungovernable temper and crazy severity. He had his men flogged at the slightest excuse, short-changed them on their miserable rations, got himself mur- derously hated. Trouble was brewing all the long voyage out, but nothing broke till the Bounty had left Tahiti. Then one night two-thirds of the crew mutinied, put Bligh and his supporters in a dangerously crowded open boat and let them take a chance on reaching land. Narrator Byam was one of several non-mutineers who had to stay with the ship. The Bounty then returned...