Word: temperance
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...Arts Decoratifs. After drilling 1,634 holes in the shell, he embroidered a view of the city on it. He broke 23 eggs before he completed "Strasbourg." Sometimes the shells gave way after he had drilled 1,200 or 1,500 holes, but Nephtalie Kahn never lost his temper. In all he has embroidered 26 eggs. Some of his better known pieces are the ostrich series, showing a butterfly, the salamander of Francois I. and a Gallic cock on which he employed 214 different colors of silk. His masterpiece is a duck egg called "Rouen" which bears the arms...
...Another summer he went off to Alaska to help found the Alaskan Society. Always Dr. Butler has scurried busily about the U. S. and the world. Before he was 30 he had lectured in every state in the union. That, says he, is one reason why he knows the temper...
...Rico, and found that someone had stolen a cushion and some accessories from the motorcar he used. After six wearing months of treating balky Puertorriquenos for pernicious anemia (his research Arbeit), after again that evening giving his blood (six quarts in all) to anemic natives, Dr. Rhoads lost his temper. To work off his anger he wrote a personal letter which included the above quotation. That made him feel better. So he threw the note among his waste papers and went...
...patient Democrat is Publisher William Randolph Hearst. His nationalist temper already at the boiling point over War Debts and the Moratorium, he spread on his front pages all over the land one day last week a bitter, biting, double-column editorial on "Hee! Haw! We're coming back!" Excerpts...
...Fraley's long and serious affair with a Manhattan girl went up in smoke. Then the War took them to the Mediterranean. In Salonika Fraley acquired a pleasant French mistress, Theroigne, left her flat when he saw her younger sister Francine. Francine was beautiful but had an ungovernable temper; when Theroigne tried to get Fraley back Francine knifed her. Because his British susceptibilities were offended, Fraley would not marry Francine after that, but they lived together when he was ashore, many turbulent years. Francine wrecked Fraley's career; he lost his job and was glad to get the post...