Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Were you . . . the ordinary type of cashier or other faithless employe, the court might be disposed to temper justice with mercy. But in this case I cannot. Your course in the last six years has been a course of thefts and larcenies, of frauds and misrepresentations, of falsifications of books and financial statements covering losses of several millions of dollars. As has been said, you were caught like a rat in a trap. Your acts have been deliberate and intentional and were committed with an unusually full opportunity for understanding their effect upon others and the consequences to yourself...
...understatement: it practically floors her. Pursuing it with the vehement, triumphant air of a gossip on the trail of scandal, she gives pages of evidence that Whitman contradicted himself-which he never denied- pages to show that despite his professions of all-embracing love he had explosions of temper, pages to show that he wrote a lot of nonsense and that his disciples wrote even more...
...have believed hitherto, that we shall best serve peace, we shall best serve the cause of freedom, if we keep out of Spain and maintain a policy of nonintervention, if we don't attempt to burn our fingers as other nations may well do." After this the temper of the House was shown by a vote of 317-to-141 favorable to the Prime Minister...
...Want To Die. Famed correspondents with the Leftists, such as New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, who have kept cabling during the 20 months of the civil war that bombs only temper the morale of the people and spur them to greater resistance, last week reported new facts...
...player in the Ontario Junior Hockey Association when he was 12. He got his high-school education (and an "expense account") by playing hockey at Iroquois Falls for the Abitibi Paper Co., which made a practice of rounding up the best available amateurs to keep its employes in good temper during a long Canadian winter. He went to McGill University while playing for the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association. After his team won the Allan Cup, Canada's No. 1 amateur trophy, Goalie Kerr turned professional, joined the Montreal Maroons, from whom the Rangers bought...