Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Control. Because he knew how to use them, power and wealth gravitated to hard-fighting John Francis Neylan in the next 20 years. Emotional, intelligent, intuitive rather than scholarly, he is a spectacular courtroom performer. Towering, grey-maned, deep-voiced, he baits, bullies, works for an explosion of temper, then strikes home. He despises anything other than a frontal attack. But he is Irish enough to ogle juries, turn his biting wit on opponents...
...Scotsmen, logical and thrifty, the costly Jubilee amid Depression makes no sense. Scotland's temper is such that George V has canceled as quietly as possible, his announced Jubilee visit to Edinburgh. In , Glasgow's poorer districts many streets are plastered with Communist slogans and to venture there there would would mean a chorus of "Down with the King...
...Bull, William Hohenzollern, the Mahdi of the Sudan, Hitler, Lenin, Trotsky and the Leatherwood God-here they are-all boiled down to two with the radio and the newsreels to make them effective and if you don't believe they are dangerous . . . you don't know the temper of this country in this continued moment of distress...
...Mendieta seemed near the end of his rope but Cubans had forgotten that in his youth their President was famed for his violent temper and his willingness to fight with his fists, a practice always impressive to Latins. Abruptly last week the hard-pressed President declared a dictatorship far more absolute than anything of Tyrant Machado's. Most sacred of Cuban fetishes is the autonomy of Havana University but President Mendieta had the University seized by soldiers, who found vast stores of ammunition and a few stolen cars on the campus. He announced that all Government employes...
Injuries: loss of some of Manager Phil Angier's eyebrows, some of Whiteside's temper, and $4500 worth of launch; asset: driver Arthur Sampson has what Swift & Co. call "smoked hams...