Word: temperance
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...Bernard K. Marcus, president of the Bank of United States. He believed an arrest had been "framed" to ruin him. He sued to examine the books of the Bank, in which he held stock, charging mismanagement of funds. How much of this tangle was truth and how much bad temper the world will never know. Last week the million dollar suits were discontinued with a hand shake. Poor people looked wistfully over the list of famed lawyers that had worked on the case, Charles Evans Hughes, Max D. Steuer, Hiram C. Todd, John Proctor Clarke, John W. Davis, etc. Such...
...course, proving the superiority of runners over the orthodox track method. It is appropriate that in the middle of a Reading Period one should have again the Wordsworthian experience of trying to catch the moon, while it glimmers in the dark ice just ahead. Nature does not need to temper her wind to the shorn lamb, not to those whose shearing is close at hand. For the rugged body is almost as necessary as the stocked brain in approaching travail...
...right to presuppose that they arose with a spirit of good will; that they have kept irritating things from the family talk of the morning; that the last minute's rush to church has not provoked them to bad temper; that they come into the church to worship...
...Germany the Chancellor (Prime Minister) is expected always to retain his dignity, never to lose his temper. Therefore Dr. Marx stated to the German press with chill reserve the following grave charges...
...life to let an instinct like the sex instinct go was scoffed at by Mr. Fosdick. "Take the instinct of pugnacity," he said, "which is very deep in us. Well go out from this house now, get nearly run over by a car loose your temper, beat up the driver, batter in his head. How will you explain yourself to the judge tomorrow morning? Will you say, 'Your Honor, I am a believer in the new psychology...