Word: temperance
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...Union Square against police orders. He emerged just in time to run for Governor of New York on the Communist ticket, poll 18,034 votes. Last month he was ejected from Moundsville, W. Va. for trying to address striking miners. In last week's disturbances he controlled his temper, did not get himself into the headlines by vigorously championing the National Miners Union side...
...stage, stole the play when, in Crime, she sat on a park bench and said "Squeeze me" to boy friends. She has her make-up prescribed for her by a chemist; other kinds poison her. Scarcely five feet tall, she loathes outdoor exercise, has a quick temper and five nicknames (Slivick, Monkey, Goofy, Brat, Funny Face). She speaks Yiddish, wears no underclothes, cannot eat eggs, can twist her right wrist so that it cracks, likes to go to Bellevue Hospital to hear lectures on psychology...
...distinction between Wet Bobs (crew men) and Dry Bobs (land sports) has become almost universal in British public schools. So keen is rivalry between Wets & Drys, each regarding his sport as gentlemanly, typically British, that a master becomes known as Wet or Dry according to the prevalent temper of his sympathies. Predominantly Dry Bob and cricketish is Harrow; but Eton began playing cricket in 1730 and Harrow has no record of it before 1771. Eton has lost no Eton-Harrow match since 1908 (but eight were drawn), and Old Etonians like to remember that Old Etonian Wellington said: "The Battle...
...money that is passing from her across the ocean. This view seems to be the result of the inability of these nations to separate debts from reparations. They feel that it is no less financially sound to cancel debts than reparations imposed in a time when the temper of the nations was vengeful. While a little clear thinking would show the protesting statesmen that cancellation of reparations is the first step, the opinion of these nations must be given weight. The United States can afford to give in quite freely for the sake of maintaining good felling. Such a policy...
Ever since Charles Evans Hughes was made Chief Justice of the U. S. his friends and critics have been intently watching the Supreme Court for any change in its temper, any shift in its alignment. The Hughes appointment last year focused the Supreme Court in the Senate as an issue of "human rights" v. "property rights" (TIME, Feb. 17, 1930 et seq.). Justices Brandeis, Holmes and Stone, dissenters all, were then cited as the court's Liberal minority upholding "human rights." Justices Van Devanter, McReynolds, Sutherland and Butler were grouped as the Conservative majority. Insurgent Senators flayed Nominee Hughes...