Word: temperedness
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Evenhanded, even-tempered Leroy Wilson was not bothered by his picketing stockholders. Every stockholder, said he, had a right to speak his piece, and he agreed to give anybody up to ten minutes to say it. When the words of one stockholder provoked a scattering of yells, President Wilson rapped...
Montana's short-tempered James E. Murray will step into the Labor Committee chairmanship vacated by the beaten Elbert Thomas of Utah. Murray may prove almost too strong a right arm. A roaring pro-labor man, several times in the past he has almost come to blows in committee...
Bubbles & Cheers. What sort of teacher do students remember? "They always recall the ill-tempered and eccentric [ones]-Miss Crab, who hit them with the pointer, and Mr. Fizz, who blew bubbles." The'y also remember such teachers as Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge, who lectured w'...
When an overzealous audience at the Edinburgh music festival began to applaud during a two-bar rest in Ariadne auf Naxos, terrible-tempered Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham whirled and shouted, "Shut up!" The audience continued applauding. "Shut up," he snarled, "you bunch of savages."
There is one simple explanation of his success: instead of running the legs off his two-year-olds, he can afford to race them sparingly, then bring them up to the longer, richer races for three-year-olds & up. At his two stud farms in France, Boussac breeds top race...