Word: temperedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Now let no one smother noble ambition; to follow a worthy ideal is very fine indeed. But the highest aspirations must be tempered with reason, and a bit of advice offered in good faith should be accepted in good faith. When the meek assistant in Economics A or Government I...
When striking truckmen rioted in Minneapolis last year two special policemen were killed (TIME, June 1934). One night last week another howling, ugly-tempered mob milled around Minneapolis' Flour City Ornamental Iron Co., which strikers from six other local iron plants had been trying to shut down since early...
During the reign of fat, cunning, democratic King Louis Philippe, an extraordinary crime, involving a smuggler's daughter, a great prince and the royal family, shocked a France that had become thoroughly accustomed to lurid intrigues and vile conspiracies. The smuggler's daughter was Sophie Dawes, brawny, coarse...
These tempered words would not have greatly interested Washington had not the story leaked out of what had taken place in the President's office ten days earlier. Nine Representatives had marched in and resolutely told him that the discretion he desired, to declare an arms embargo against either...
Sergeant Jurney decided to beat one more covert before quitting for the day. The motorcade drove back to Washington to the Hotel Shoreham to ask Bernard B. Robinson, Hopson's "Washington representative", whether he knew where his boss was. At the desk of the Shoreham whom should Mr. Jurney bump...