Word: temperedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Artist Utrillo, born 53 years ago, is the illegitimate son of a onetime circus acrobat, Marie Suzanne Valadon, who at the age of 15 became a favorite nude model for Renoir, Puvis de Chavannes and Toulouse-Lautrec, later became a painter herself and is alive today, still painting, with a...
"The plane works away stiff-legged and importantly over the rough ground. Like an ill-tempered old somebody awakened too early, she shrugs her shoulders from side to side as each wheel sinks into a rut. . . .
Local opinion of him became practically unanimous when hot-tempered Jean, who had no love for the canting Covenanters and was much drawn to Clavers' dark good looks, saw him superintending a bloody flogging. That night, when they met at a ball, she publicly insulted him. 'But it...
The chief recommendation for a remission of this bad-tempered bickering is the necessity for England to return her attention to the critical condition of matters international. This Simpson affair has interrupted a far more important matter, the good work of keeping England out of the general imbroglio. The rearming...
Andrew was tall, bony, large-faced, the son of a hot-tempered West Virginia landowner, born into what the neighbors said was the "preachingest family in Greenbrier County, with dissenting blood as strong as lye." When he got the call to be a missionary nothing could stop him, neither the...