Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Fay Webb Vallée, actress, daughter of Santa Monica, Calif.'s Police Chief Clarence E. Webb. Fay Webb first sought an injunction to restrain her husband from seeking divorce in Mexico. That was denied. Then she sued for separate maintenance, charging misconduct with three women, vicious temper, vile language, character assassination. Crooner Vallée countered with affidavits reciting spicy telephone chats between Fay Webb and Garfield ("Gary") Leon, adagio dancer. Separated. John Gilbert, 36, film actor; and Virginia Bruce Gilbert, film a tress, his fourth wife. Reason: incompatibility. Died. Charles E. Sellers ("Charles E. Mack...
...enjoyed publicity aplenty, but since then he had been out of sight in the news. After June 16, when the Recovery Act was signed, Man of the Year Johnson's scowl his broad mouth and furrowed brow his pithy epithets, the daily state of his health and temper, made acres of newspictures, miles of news copy every 24 hours. He was not the Administrator of NRA He was NRA. In plotting their common course through the last six months of 1933, future historians will mark well these dates: July 9-The cotton textile code is signed, providing...
...temper of the public mind is quite an important thing, for it is this elusive quality which makes or breaks governments and determines the characteristic spiritual color of a period. Many words have been wasted deciding just what this thing called public opinion is and how to find out where it is moving at any particular time--all to very little avail. Of recent years there has grown up an interesting barometer of opinion that, so far as I know, has attracted little attention. This is the common garden variety of movie, Genus Americans Ordinaris...
Though he usually keeps his temper when paying his respects, Lloyd George never conceals his real opinion of his colleagues. Kitchener he kindly calls "one of the unsolved mysteries of the war." After Neuve Chapelle, he says, Kitchener groaned not over the casualties but the wasted shells. Of Balfour he says: "[The Admiralty] was an office that called for unceasing attention to detail. It meant long hours, early and late. Mr. Balfour was obviously unsuitable for such a post...
...copy of the world outside. The corruption of the clergy became his battle-cry. At first Savonarola had little success among the Dominicans, a preaching order, for he was as forceless a speaker as the tyro Demosthenes. But one day amidst a crowd of blasphemous soldiers he lost his temper and found his tongue. Called to preach at Florence (after one dismal failure there) he startled a goggling congregation into enthusiasm, soon became the city's foremost preacher. The mighty Lorenzo de' Medici tried to domesticate him, but Savonarola had more spiritual fish to fry. He began...