Word: temperish
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...answer was recently given in the British magazine, The Aeroplane, by its expert, temperish editor and founder, Charles Grey Grey. As editor of the standard handbook, Jane's All the World's Aircraft, Mr. Grey is also the world's No. 1 air authority. As a trained engineer fascinated by the science of war, he is emphatically anti-French and pro-German. He opened his opinion of France's air establishment with a wild blast against France's case against Germany at the London Locarno Conference...
...bogey man flickered until last week through the shuttered bordellos of Havana, the rich red valleys of inland Cuba, the old Spanish fortresses of the coast. He had guns and money and followers, among them a plump, blonde, temperish Cuban-Irish trollop named Ziomara O'Halloran. He was wanted badly by Army Chief of Staff Batista, with whom he had a deadly personal feud. For the record, however, Batista wanted him for three crimes: 1) the shooting of a treacherous colleague, 2) the kidnapping of a rich Cuban idler for the fabulous ransom of $300,000, and 3) engineering...
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