Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tear up his card when his game slips, explode over camera clicks and yelping dogs. Slightly stoop-shouldered, he flouts form by bending his left arm at the start of his stroke. Otherwise, as last week's victory suggested, his style is as studied as his temper is touchy. Self-made son of an English schoolmaster, he has practiced hours before a mirror. During important tournaments he often has a masseur treat him, retires resolutely at 9 p. m. He carries a record bag of clubs...
...plays along closely with the New Deal, harried angry Senator Robinson by asking for an explanation '"why the amendment is necessary at all . . . if it is already in the power of the President to use his discretion as to the amount of local contributions required." Losing his temper, Joe Robinson turned on him and bellowed: "I can give the Senator from Illinois the explanation, but-Great God!-I respectfully decline to give him understanding." The final scene of the debate was almost tearful. Alben Barkley cried: "I never expected to see the floor of the U. S. Senate turned...
...have commented unfavorably on the work of others present, professional hostility sometimes hampered objective discussion. Closest the Congress came to a real explosion was in the critics' section where critics criticized each other, the Congress, the Communist Party, until Chairman Granville Hicks (The Great Tradition ) lost his temper...
...undo the damage. Representative Woodrum, bitter that $500,000,000 should be cut for pork but not for economy, assisted. But the earmarking bloc remained in the saddle. The Administration leaders had to resort to a filibuster to keep the earmarked bill from being rushed to passage. The temper of the House was made manifest when an amendment was adopted limiting any WPA salary to $10,000. No name needed to be mentioned: the amendment meant $2,000 off the pay of Harry Hopkins and no one else...
...years ago in the days of Roosevelt I, John Davison Rockefeller was frequently and publicly proclaimed as the "mosthated man" in the U. S. The $29,000,000 fine imposed on Standard Oil in 1907 by Kenesaw Mountain Landis was merely a reflection of the public's temper. Mr. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Trust were not viewed with the cynical distrust which Big Business enjoys in the days of Roosevelt II. At that time the public was roused to a white fury by the ruthless tactics of a predatory monopoly. What that age failed to see was that...