Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sight of London, like St. Paul's, though he wears his dome at the side. He has written verse not equaled since Praed. He has graved his name into English law. He wanted only a Sullivan and a bad temper to beat Gilbert at his own game. He can navigate the Thames and work out his position from the stars, without one glance at the bank. But his real forte is for friendship. He is a remarkably good friend, even to his enemies-excepting always himself...
...marriage, Wayne became a producer at Republic (two Wayne productions: The Angel and the Badman, The Bullfighter and the Lady), and the work and the talk increased proportionately. Pacing the floor of his executive's office, amid the constant clangor of telephone bells and interoffice squawkers, his quick temper frequently boils over. After one of these outbursts, he broods for a while, then seeks out his victim in contrition. "I'm always apologizing to somebody," he says. He has acquired that final badge of executive success, a gastric ulcer. In 1950, after finishing Jet Pilot (still unreleased...
...Word. On the TV screen, Taft at first seemed to take these charges calmly. But Sokolsky's temper had a lower ignition point. Tossing his mane, he shouted indignantly: "I resent very much anyone giving the impression that Senator Taft is a liar, and if I were Senator Taft I would rise now and leave this program . . . Only scoundrels lie. And the word 'lie' is a bad word, and when a man impugns the truth of another man, he places himself outside good manners, and I resent...
...governor of South Carolina, James Byrnes, is a distinguished politician who was once an undistinguished Secretary of State and an even less distinguished Justice of the Supreme Court. He knows the temper of his state. He and South Carolina's legislature are cheek to cheek on the question of "white supremacy." They would abolish the state's public-school system rather than give up the segregation of Negroes and whites...
When Jane Russell, Lana Turner, Joan Crawford, Jimmy Durante and Victor Mature failed to appear as witnesses at the trial of a Hollywood fashion designer charged with stealing a fur piece, the court lost its temper, said: "These Hollywood people ask the protection of the courts, but fail to appear when it doesn't suit their convenience. Who do they think they are? Movie people are no better than anyone else...