Word: temperedness
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As Author Sandoz reconstructs the story from old diaries and memoirs, Cozad-man and town-prospered despite plagues of hungry insects, through dust storms and snowstorms, despite rampaging long-horn herds and quick-trigger cowprods. By 1882 he had harvested a fortune of $300,000, and raised two spunky sons...
Now that tobaccomen can no longer sing, shout or advertise their superior claims to health protection, they are busy researching novelty in flavors, e.g., chocolate and peppermint. They are also using their cash reserves from high profits to diversify. Reynolds has already bought an aluminum-foil plant, Archer Aluminum, and...
The high priest and priestess of French existentialism, Authors Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter) de Beauvoir, once great and good friends but now only good fellow travelers, stopped over briefly in New York City after a visit to Cuba. Simone seemed entranced: "We found a...
The only Carmen in operatic history to commit suicide was an opulently constructed New Jersey girl named Gussie Seit. That was seven years ago, at the Chicago Lyric Opera, after terrible-tempered Tenor David Poleri, appearing as Don José, stalked off the stage in the final act snarling at...
Sensational in Swahili. By most who know him, Tom Mboya is respected but not loved, for the hard climb up the ladder has tempered his shy, modest personality with a clinically detached coldness and an occasional ruthlessness that angers enemies and saddens friends. He is courteous and correct, but a...