Word: temperedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cuban friends then considered mildly mad. Cuban mothers cooped up their daughters in the Spanish tradition of despotic chaperonage tempered by matrimonial intrigue. And Mr. Frederick Snare was a rising U. S. contracting engineer who in Cuba specialized, as he still does, in "Piers and Warehouses, Power Plants, Bridges, Sugar...
This created a snarl which most Paris commentators considered impossible of disentanglement by Pierre Laval. It appeared that after years of spiteful and ill-tempered intrigue "Edouard II" Daladier had gained at least a temporary whip hand against "Edouard I" Herriot, and that when Premier Laval returns this week from...
To handle those distraught men, women & children costs New York City hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, including $9,000 salary for the manager of all its activities. Although he might have earned several times $9,000 yearly in private practice, Dr. Menas Sarkas Gregory, a hot-tempered, domineering...
This wording of the question seemed to most Britons in court last week approximately as incoherent as the one on which Dr. Hanfstaengl based his suit, but the great earnestness of enormous Putzy won him some sympathy. It became possible to guess that Dr. Hanfstaengl had meant to convey to...
The Civil War brought more hard times for Marx and Engels. Fired from the Tribune, Marx tried to get a job on a railroad. His daughter secretly attempted to go on the stage to help her parents. Increasingly absent-minded about money, Marx once signed a note, forgot all about...