Word: temperedness
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Fortnight ago the symphony invited swart-tempered Spaniard Jose Iturbi to conduct next spring, offered him passage in an R.A.F. bomber and an acoustically perfect air-raid shelter. Last week Iturbi was still thinking it over.
At the week's end the President appointed one of the toughest "sundowners"* of them all as CINCUS. To be field boss of all the U.S. Navy in all seas he named Admiral Ernest Joseph King, 63, egg-bald, nitroglycerine-tempered, two-fisted, acid-tongued Commander of the Atlantic...
Now, back in good grace, he returned to the U.S. as Russia's Ambassador, entrusted with the vital job of arranging war collaboration. He arrived in a capital shocked by news of Japan's attack. Maxim Litvinoff's pleasure was tempered with gravity: Soviet Russia's...
Well to the left of both are the three Independent Labor Party members, most notable of whom is broguish John ("Jock") McGovern, 54, a bull-tempered Scottish Socialist who believes that Dictator Stalin has long since sold Karl Marx and the Workers of the World down the river; who once...
In the Tribune's "Golden Era," before the Colonel got at the news columns, it produced its only Pulitzer Prizewinner, beloved Cartoonist John T. McCutcheon. But Cartoonist McCutcheon, a sweet-tempered man who could not adapt his pen to McCormick manias, has been pushed aside by Cartoonist Carey Cassius...