Word: temperedness
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Sorrow for Stalingrad tempered Russia's somber pride in Leningrad. The tsar-made city on the Baltic, entering its second year of siege, presented to Russia and the world an epic of agony and heroism which in its duration and sustained intensity exceeded even the siege of Sevastopol.
Season's biggest sale at Parke-Bernet was 18th-Century British Painter John Hoppner's Portrait of Miss Frances Beresjord (see cut), bought for $39,000 by the famous art-dealing firm of Duveen's. It was lavishly topped, however, by the season's record high...
Hot-tempered, bachelor Governor Prentice Cooper Jr., who has already served two terms, had only to make his voters forget one thing: Tennessee's anti-third term tradition. The voters forgot.
But in Rome, where he does his weekend shopping, quiet Roland Hayes is less well known. Fortnight ago, his wife and nine-year-old daughter Africa (pronounced Afree-ka) went into Higgins Shoe Store, where they had traded for three years. It was a hot day and they sat in...
In short, even-tempered Elmer Davis had decided that he had a new boss: he was no longer working directly for the U.S. people but for the U.S. Government. He was not going to exert the authority which he had (under the Executive Order which created his job) to make...