Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally Braithwaite lost his temper, tongue-lashed his laggards. Beginning immediately, he told them, they were to act like ladies, gentlemen-and scholars. They sat amazed as he gave his startling ultimatum: girls were to be addressed as Miss, boys were to be referred to by their surnames. He himself, he announced, would answer only to Sir or Mr. Braithwaite. When one boy objected that he knew the girls too well for formality, Braithwaite scored a tactical victory. "Is there any young lady present whom you consider unworthy of your courtesies?" he asked. The girls glared at the rebel...
...owner of a joint called Porky's rashly advertised a bargain rate-$1.50 for all the beer a student could surround in three hours. His taps ran dry, and before a refill truck could rescue him, the offended scholars had pitched his furniture overboard. The owner kept his temper, next day hired a plane to patrol the beach with a banner advising that the dry spell would not recur...
...single pustule in a larger leprosy. The trial, arguing from this evidence, swiftly develops an eloquent though somewhat overextended plea for the abolition of the death penalty. The film rises to a memorable peroration in the words of Clarence Darrow (Orson Welles), as he asks the court to temper justice with mercy, sentence his clients to life in prison. "Life!" he cries. "Any cry for more goes back to the hyena...
Divorced. Otto Preminger, 52, Vienna-born Hollywood producer-director (Saint Joan, The Moon Is Blue): by Mary Gardner Preminger, 40, his second wife, who punctuated a crossfire of adultery charges with the information that Preminger's temper is so hot that he sometimes gets down on all fours and beats his head on the floor; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Hollywood...
...white-lipped debate, Labor lost, 237 to 293, partly because the Speaker ruled that an M.P. does not carry parliamentary privilege about with him, as a Foreign Office man does his diplomatic immunity. But if Stonehouse himself was not particularly popular on either side of the House, the temper of the mother of parliaments showed during the debate that it was very worried about the direction one of its children, the Central Africa Federation, is taking...