Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short to chase libels" (TIME, Jan. 25). Mr. Bigelow however continues in full cry after Mr. Wells' allegedly libelous retort to his allegedly libelous statement. Said he as a parting shot to the reporters last week, "Poor Wells! He is very sore; that's all. He lost his temper and he has got to apologize...
...these gentry, Mr. Chamberlain queried oratorically amid lively applause, "Why should not we be free to take advantage of the skill of any man qualified or unqualified, it being understood that anyone who goes to an unqualified man goes at his own risk, and must take the consequences?" The temper of the House was seen to be so markedly against the resolution that it was allowed to peter out by general assent, although no actual vote was taken. U. S. physicians recalled that famed vegetarian G. B. Shaw and numerous other enlightened Englishmen swear by the officially non-existent "bone...
...Such were the Gargantuan interludes which Prince Bismarck could conjure about him like a spell. His wife, Johanna von Puttkamer, was of a milder temper. Yet their daughter got on well with her mother, too. In the Princess Bismarck's absence she presided over the famed Yellow Salon so graciously that a newspaper of the day declared: "She has become a remarkably fine woman, whose wit and intelligence are the theme of general praise...
...slim boy, famed in his native village of Braine-l'Alleud, south of Brussels, for "disputing the rabbit" for arguing, was ordained priest. The young man was eloquent with words, never lost his temper, was very likable, studied hard, reasoned clearly. His superiors liked him; soon, in 1877, made him professor of philosophy at the Petit Seminaire in the see of Malines the seat of Archbishop Goossens. For five years there he educated youths; taught them with kindliness, perspicacity, sympathy. He gained besides a wide reputation, a wide influence...
Torn open by capitalism in search of markets, Japan was strong enough to retaliate in kind. But, because she possesses vitality, she is non the less a blossom of the East. Her people may enshroud a mystic temper and a love of occult ritualism with the paraphernalia of foreign trade; it is but in self-defense: she smells of sandalwood still. Her cults her shrines, her potentates, her very homes and villages, are only curious mysteries to Caucasian eyes. Yet theirs are roots before which the Christian faith is a seedling. There is no power in intercourse with the west...