Word: temperedness
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Younger sons of the King of England are technically commoners. It was a foregone conclusion, as soon as the engagement of Prince George to handsome Princess Marina of Greece was announced, that he would follow his older brothers, York and Gloucester, into the Peerage. The great question was what title...
Died. "Old Lady," 28, Toronto Zoo's vegetarian baboon; in her sleep; in Toronto. Her keeper, Bill Ford, thought the addition to her diet of carrots, tomatoes and greens accounted for her living twice the normal life span of baboons. She had four children, four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren...
The nigger-in-the-woodpile, says Author Adams, first appeared in August 1619. The woodpile was a Dutch man-o'-war, which unloaded "twenty Negars" at the struggling English colony of Jamestown, Va. But Adams knows too much about history to singularize plural causes. Slavery, says he, was only...
In 1924, Mr. Brown acquired a new editor for Editor & Publisher, quick-tempered, idealistic Marlen Edwin Pew. At 56, with a thoroughgoing newshawk's career behind him, Marlen Pew speaks of his experience as "the most wonderful, glamorous, satisfying adventure that any man could desire." He helped organize the...
A French horse, Pepino, paying 9-to-1, managed to win the race before a workman threw the first chair over the rail. Then the hot, short-tempered crowd turned mob, rolled out of the stands into the track yelling against Jockey Semblat, the bookmakers, Pepino, the Government and Alexandre...