Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pointing out that in contrast with the tendencies of the National Socialist Party, the German army has exerted on the whole "a peace-preserving influence," Marx explained the apparent paradox by the fact that professional soldiers temper the prospects of glory with strategic calculations. "Strategic calculus," he stated, "made the German Army command pointedly reluctant toward Fascism's and National Socialism's 'little war', in Spain. This issue led to the inner conflict that culminated in the mass resignations misnamed the 'army purge...
When Joseph Patrick Kennedy finally settled on board the S. S. Manhattan last week to take his Irish temper to the Court of St. James, he had no fear of failing to get safely to his post. All the ship's seamen were members of the National Maritime Union, and presumably his sworn enemies, but their spokesman announced through his teeth: "Our members wall give Mr. Kennedy every courtesy no matter what they think of his attempts to wreck their union...
...most important state, Sir Akbar Hydari said of Federation: "So far from being anywhere near finality, we have not yet reached the state of negotiations." A few weeks ago, after personal aides of King George and experts of the India Office had journeyed out to the Empire, judged the temper of the Indian people in 1938 as best they could, the Coronation Durbar was indefinitely postponed by His Majesty...
...father, a browbeaten husband, at once sentimental and hard; a secretive man with his human share of stupidities and perplexities, his career marked, like all men's, with its broken friendships and its grotesque blunders. The Lincoln Herndon knew was a thoughtful, dry man whose wife's temper was a scandal to the town; a law partner who brought his mean children to the office where they tore up the papers and urinated or the floor uncorrected; a practical politician who set out coldly to destroy Douglas when he saw Douglas as his rival for leadership...
...work proves to be of the Flemish or Dutch school of the middle of the seventeenth century. This was a time when Flemish sculptors were in demand all over Europe from Italy to Scandinavia. In their vitality, realism and skill in execution, they were peculiarly fitted to express the temper of that epoch...