Word: temperedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It was due to two factors that they have so well tempered seemingly contrasted ideals. One, the people were united enough and articulate enough to want to fight their way free of monopoly and capitalistic excesses. Two, they had unselfish and capable leaders to push the crusade.
Poe's fine disregard of mere money is exhibited in his rage at being presented a $50 story prize rather than a $25 poetry prize. The hostility which his literary criticism met in later years may actually have been due to the philistinism of his times, but in the...
By contrast, most newspaper cartooning of the campaign has been dismally lacking in fun. For oldtime jest and jibe, most cartoonists have substituted grim seriousness, sullen partisanship. A charitable explanation is that the Roosevelt-Landon campaign has been a confused, bad-tempered one, and cartoonists have simply reflected the temper...
It is the belief of Mr. Jacobs that a trainer who expects to get good treatment from his horses should respond in kind. He inspects each of his charges several times a day, makes them practice no more than is absolutely essential, hires the best available exercise boys. He believes...
Last week, in the first volume of another series of novels, the O'Neill's were shown occupying the centre of the same grim stage that the Lonigans recently vacated. Although they are poorer than the Lonigans, they are much like them in temperament: a quarreling, short-tempered...