Word: temperedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only once in The Old Century does war overshadow Sassoon's mellow recollections of his Kent childhood, his nurses, tutors, governesses, Thornycroft relatives, boys' schools. Reminded while revisiting his old village of his brother Hamo, killed at Gallipoli, he muses bitterly over the present "halfhearted renouncement of war...
It is sometimes suggested naively, and not always by women, that the explanation of Hitler's harsh personality and policies is his bachelorhood-his indifference to the charm of women and the lack of children of his own. How much this theory smacks of the coo-and-goo philosophy...
The fattest supporting role in Kentucky is naturally that of a hot-tempered, horse-breeding old Kentucky squire. The picture's greatest virtue is that Walter Brennan plays him, chin whiskers and all, as though Peter Goodwin were a real human being, not a stock character. Typical sequence: Peter...
From vast, subterranean Michigan streams Dow Chemical Co. pumps brackish water, produces aspirin, phenol, ammonia, chlorine. From the vast Pacific, Great Western Electro-Chemical Co. dredges salt, manufactures liquid chlorine, caustic soda, caustic potash. In a corporate chemical reaction last month these two companies decided to combine. Last week their...
Nazi journalists behaved like badly spoiled, ill-tempered and sulky brats last week at London and Brussels. At London, they boycotted Prime Minister Chamberlain's speech. At Lima, five German correspondents stalked out of a committee session in a huff when Dantes Bellegarde, Haitian delegate, declared that the Americas...