Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What have endeared M. Besson most to the voters of Le Puy in central France are his hair and his temper. On the Besson skull, hair grows only in two patches above and behind each ear. These strands have been trained to twine like ivy about his polished brow. M. Besson sports a gaudy muffler yards long in winter, and a blue straw hat in summer. His temper is such that he can never see a braided cap, be it on a policeman, railway conductor, doorman or bellboy, without trying to bash...
...opening of Parliament will not do for a trial, Noble Lords were bustling anxiously about London last week trying to rent the requisite cocked hats. When all these had been rented, extortionate London hatters charged luckless lords who had to buy cocked hats $60 each. Since popular temper was rising sharply against forcing the taxpayers of Surrey to spend $50,000 in order that a peer charged with felony may receive, at most, a wrist-slapping sentence, attorneys for unpopular Lord de Clifford announced that he "cannot" waive his mandatory right to be tried by the House of Lords...
...Lifer Gingell for value received, one year's subscription to TIME.-ED. Voice Raised, Temper Lost Sirs...
...voice is seldom raised, his temper never lost." Thus TIME word-pictured Packard's Macauley (TIME, Nov. 4). During the summer of 1917 I bell-boyed on the S.S. Noronic which the Packard Motor Co. chartered for a three-day convention cruise. At the end of the cruise and just before unloading passengers at Detroit I stalked Mr. Macauley's Parlor A for his luggage-allowing many "sure things" to pass by in order to capture the big game. I got my man and many cumbersome pieces of luggage which I maneuvered to his waiting Twin-Six. Then...
...some prominent Oxonians. At this provocation not even smelling salts could prevent Putzy from flying wrathfully off the handle. In court last week Dr. Hanfstaengl, admirably composed, declared, "Such a statement as the one attributed to me could only have been made by a man of violent and vulgar temper." In an injured tone the big man continued softly, "What hurt me most was the idea that somebody would say I would burn down the finest seat of learning in the Anglo-Saxon world. It is just like saying I would burn down Goethe's or Schiller...