Word: temperence
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Papini, Dante was no saint; there were "at least a dozen women in his life . . . there is no doubt that Dante was a sensual man." As a Catholic he was guilty of three besetting sins-lust, wrath, pride. "Dante is always a little aloof, and easily shows a surly temper. . . . [His] love is more of the head than the heart, more theological than evangelical." Of his wife Gemma and the children she bore him Papini says hardly a word. Of the divine fire that must have blazed behind Dante's cold Catholic exterior his biographer does not give even...
...workmen was a Russian called Peter with a temper like gunpowder, who did five men's work in a day and drank at night with the capacity of a suction pump. Was there a great spar to be lifted or an anchor to be moved into place? Call Peter. Get the Russian to do it. And Peter would rush up like a regiment of Cossacks and fall to as though his life were at stake. Except sometimes, when he appeared to be sketching in a notebook. Then he would be deaf as a stone, and dynamite couldn't move...
...less popular, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald is abused and heckled by audiences more and more, but last week at Luton the ruled classes received Orator MacDonald with jeers, catcalls, laughter- far more dangerous than heckling or abuse. Sensing that he had become ridiculous, Scot MacDonald lost his temper and with it his usual audience control. For the first time he failed to win silence and a hearing, left Luton amid cruel mirth...
...able to do no more than show us that a paucity of babies is the universal cause of depressions, he might well deserve a welcome. But he come to us with the added distinction of service in a country that is the foremost exponent of the dictatorial state. The temper, training, and background of the Italian people have made them receptive to this departure from democratic institutions. Since that departure there have been notable innovations in dealing with the social problems of the country. Some of the methods employed are indigenous to the system from which they arose. Others...
...Minnesota probe included First Bank Stock Corp., the other great Northwestern exponent of group banking, but the fact that at least one official was an Olson friend seemed to temper the commerce commission's tactics with that institution. Not so with Banco: After months of investigation the commerce commission presented its findings-allegations that dividends were paid without earnings-to a grand jury in Hennepin County (Minneapolis). Promptly the grand jury voted a no bill, thus thwarting Governor Olson's determination to put someone in jail...