Word: temperedness
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Terrible-tempered Gregory Ratoff, according to Columnist John Chapman, was giving all of his directorial attention to making two great Danes hold still for a scene in The Corsican Brothers, now shooting. One of the beasts was fidgety, wouldn't behave. Raged the frustrated director: "Take that dog'...
Scene IV: Across a table on which maps are spread the two men face each other again. They measure each other, and each measures his own stature, comparing it to the other's, trying to see himself through the eyes of history. The President for a moment remembers cares...
The salutation was a mite too bland. The letter itself reminded North Carolina's hot-tempered, 77-year-old Representative Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, of a kick in the pants. For three months he had sweated over the biggest tax bill of all...
José Iturbi, turbulent-tempered Spanish conductor-pianist, got on his high horse last week with one angry bound. Reason: he was slated to conduct a program (July 10) at Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, on which Swingster Benny Goodman was scheduled to play one of his specialties, the...
Chicago's busiest muckraker is the Rev. Elmer Williams (Methodist), 67, husky, hot-tempered publisher of Lightnin' (average circ. 2,500), a lively, often accurate little sheet which for years has lambasted the Chicago Tribune, gangsters, labor racketeers, politicians. But not until last week was Crusader Williams sued...