Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...European waters. He married his cousin, is childless. Ashore he putters around a flower garden, smacks over a dish of boned shad, keeps a voluminous scrap book. Afloat he is a strict but just disciplinarian. He talks in a low, melodious drawl, never raising his voice to match his temper. Slim of stature, smiling of face, he gets his nickname from his sandy red hair, his apple cheeks. He believes ardently in big guns and big navies but does not tactlessly preach his belief from public platforms out of working hours...
...overcome the Senate's colossal inertia to plow into a difficult and abstruse subject. He had to beat down a small but dogged opposition which filibustered against his bill for the better part of the three weeks it was before the Senate. He had to keep his temper and his tongue when abused by windy petti-foggers for whose intelligence he had only scorn and contempt. A man of smaller calibre might have given up the struggle- but not "Pluck" Glass. For his reward he had a bill in which he boasted "not an 'i' had been...
Alfred Emanuel Smith had added nothing to his public stature by his display of bad temper following his defeat for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Throughout the year, along with Calvin Coolidge, he remained a distinguished private citizen...
...little companion book to his 604 pages on her husband. Co-Author Angle's part was editing the documents (mostly letters from Mary Lincoln). Sandburg's account will not change the picture U. S.-history readers have already formed of Lincoln's chubby, pathologically bad-tempered wife, but may add a few particulars to their knowledge. Sensitive to appearances-especially to the appearance she and her lanky husband made together-Mary Lincoln would never allow a photograph to be taken of them as a couple. Her three half-brothers all fought in the Confederate army, giving rise...
Sirs: If I had the "ungovernable temper" which you ascribe to me, I would - * in your editor's ear as a quid pro quo for the way you libel me in your issue of Dec. 5; instead, I'll give you the facts to take the place of your misrepresentations and let you suffer the chagrin that the truth would have made a more romantic story than your fiction...