Word: temperedness
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Walter Pidgeon plays the short-tempered, sex-proof overseer of an African rubber plantation, whose greatest problems are monotonous isolation and attempts to keep an assistant at the jungle outpost for longer than six months. The film begins with the arrival of a new assistant (Richard Carlson), whose many good...
To help its canteen workers understand American patrons, Britain's Navy, Army & Air Force Institutes issued a pamphlet. Interesting by-product was the information it gave U.S. soldiers about what the British think of them after nearly a year in the United Kingdom. Samples: >"Americans are men's...
Johnson is one of the most controversial and least known Presidents. Some historians and most citizens today know him only as a bullheaded, ill-tempered drunkard who narrowly escaped impeachment by a righteous Congress. But some biographers consider him a great man, ranking just ahead of Abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens and...
In 1942 the machine-tool industry, which up to 1940 had never produced more than a half billion dollars worth of products, turned out $1.3 billions. Alcoa, damned and doubly damned for the aluminum mess of 1941, smashed the ingot shortage and ended the year by producing about 88% of...
Despite labor's near-unanimous demand, at week's end it seemed likely that the worst that able, bad-tempered Jerry Land could expect would be a White House reprimand for not submitting his speech to the Office of War Information in the first place.