Word: temperance
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Harvard has done two things of advantage to the country. One directly. It has taken its defects as any gentleman should, in good temper and without excuses and recriminations, something rather unusual among our colleges and has brought home to the public the truth we have just been discussing. Manchester Union
...University football squad, for whose entertainment an evening at the Tremont theatre had been planned, yesterday failed to witness "The Cocoanuts" because of the cupidity of an officious police officer and the unreasonable temper of the Tremont theatre's business manager...
Before leaving, Manager Osborne and N. S. Howe 26 tried to ascertain the number of the police officer, but when the latter was asked civilly for this information, he completely lost his good temper and fairly shouted, "Get out before I call the patrol wagon...
...judge correctly the temper of the world--at least down to Locarno--there is probably less disposition to adopt the civilized methods of adjusting conflicting interests than there has been for some time. Few people realize or are willing to contemplate the fact that eleven years of devastating was and disintegrating peace have undermined the moral foundations of many densely populated areas of the world, and that there is more faith in the efficacy of force -- accompanied by a growing contempt for law--as a solution for international differences than there has been since the days of Napoleon. The forces...
...Ancestor" Sargent called the portrait, recognizing in Ribblesdale's magnificent physical presence, his fastidious dress, and in the whole temper of his mind, those qualities which legend has conferred upon the peers of England. Traces of an older generation survived in his speech and in his clothes,- hard grainy phrases, grandiloquent flights of formal gallantry, puffing stocks, deep collars, square top hats. He was a celebrated boxer! People said that he could knock out any man in the House of Lords. Once he sat next to Charles Parnell in a railway carriage and, for the only time...