Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reasons for this sharp drop in public interest in NRA were plentiful. General Johnson has ceased giving daily dramatic performances in Washington. Normal working hours have softened his temper and his tongue. There are no more tycoons to be battled. The battalions of NRA propagandists have been disbanded. National code-making has almost petered out. Last week it was announced that barber shops, laundries, building managements, restaurants and local transportation would be encouraged to form their regional codes. Biggest NRA project afoot was not the making of codes, but a big meeting in Washington to air code criticisms, suggest revisions...
...with only a sandwich for company, who was so blushing and modest and gawky in the face of virtual deification, who got bored at a risque musical comedy, who ostentatiously spurned liquor and lechery, do anything ignoble? Unfortunately, Lindy has been as mistaken in his analysis of the public temper as he was in his estimation of Roosevelt's naivete; the people are, in fact, damn sick and tired of these Clean Cut Young Men; Mr. James Cagney has been substituted as a somewhat bawdier idol, and even the self-conscious college rake with a girl...
...meantime the Daladier cabinet has received a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies which will probably not be of much consolation if the riot of yesterday was any indication of the temper of the majority of the people. The cabinet is obviously banking on the hypothesis that it is not, that while the populace has been profoundly stirred by the official corruption, their faith in parliamentarians is still unimpaired. Most reliable reports would seem to substantiate this theory; but in French politics there is very little information that can be called reliable, and parliament Aryanism, which entered France...
...Plus vite, Maestro, plus vite! Je ne suis pas malade." Nine-year-old Ruth Slenczynski was rehearsing with the Symphony in San Francisco, her home city, and the tempo taken by Conductor Bernardino Molinari, 54, displeased her. Molinari kept his temper at rehearsal but last week's performance was too much for him. The Concerto, Beethoven's First, had ended and he had left the stage. But not little Ruth Slenczynski. She stayed firmly planted on her piano stool, tossing off encore after encore even after Richard M. Tobin came on stage to present her with a string...
...catalogue of the dramatic relies which compose this play would include; the aging and virgin aunt with a frustrated youth, the very Louisianian young blade, with a hot temper, a sense of honor, and a complete faith in the economic and political future of the South, the plague of yellow fever as a fearful background, the duel, the darkies and pickaninnies, the decayed family, and finally, the deserted mansion. But Davis is not true to the romance of "swords and roses"; he fumbles a little psychopathology into the plot, and his play quavers ridiculously for two acts between Eugene...