Word: temperance
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...government in the business of selling liquor. On the other hand, it make take the form of stiffening the law, imprisoning where it now fines, and applying the penalties to purchasers as well as to sellers. The wets of the seaboard cities are peculiarly incapable of judging the temper of the American people. There is at least an even chance that when or if modification comes it will take the latter rather than the former direction...
...When Queen Mary is getting into a temper she is apt to purse her lips and whistle softly; 2) Edward of Wales is commonly called by Palace minions "the young...
...when it appears that the bastard, now grown into a beautiful girl, is about to marry a handsome member of the Dedlock clan, he croaks his intention of squealing. He has gained his information by the aid of Hortense, a maid, who has good sense and a bad temper...
...physician is always closeted with him privily for five or ten minutes before he makes a public appearance or speech of any kind. Intimates of the House of Stresemann profess to know that the doctor spends these five-minute periods in reminding the statesman that he must curb his temper, eschew his favorite fiery oratory, conserve his strength...
...Hoover sentiments seemed calculated to soothe the social temper of Argentina as he had found it. After touching upon the civic splendors he had been shown, he asked permission "to sound a convincing note of faith and hope in the future of humanity." He described himself to his hearers: "It has been no part of mine to build castles of the future but rather to measure the experiments, the actions and the progress of men through the cold and uninspiring microscope of fact, statistics and performance." Then he said he really believed that "the Western World stands upon the threshold...