Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hatter's Castle," the novel which created so favorable a reaction when published last year, will find in "Three Loves" an amplification rather than a development of the characteristics of that volume. This applies to its defects as well as its merits. In fact so similar are they in temper, and in the manner in which the tragedy is developed as a "satire of circumstance" that one suspects that "Three Loves" was written before rather than after "Batter's Castle" and prepared for publication on the strength of the previous success...
When Prosecutor John C. Kelley read his next issue of TIME (May 9) he must there have found reported that Mrs Massie's fit of temper on the witness stand where she tore up evidence did the defense no good with the jury." Shame may have colored the prosecutor's neck but court observers thought they detected rage in his voice and manner...
...temper of the world has changed and left behind it the Victorian sensibilities which Kipling pleased, life as he painted it remains, and with it the appeal and pertinence of his wisdom. The compassion with which he tells how Gadsby Memsahib walked through the Valley of the Shadow, and the open-minded acceptance of the metem-psychosis of Charlie Mears, are good in a modern day of sceptical worldliness. Even the Prime Minister might get a better glimpse of the soul of Mother India through the enlightenment of Pagett, M.P. But that is another story...
...Reginald Marsh. Karfiol has four pictures in the exhibit: "Picnic", "Torso", "Pine Island", and "The Yellow Drape." Two large canvases, "Staircase" and "Still Life with Glass Bottle" are the works of Morris Kantor, whose more recent pictures hint toward Victorian subjects treated in the Modern Manner. In the two temper paintings "Tenth Avenue" and "Locomotive Watering," Reginald Marsh has suppressed the brilliant coloring which formerly characterized his pieces...
...final tabulation of the CRIMSON Presidential Poll reveals, even at this early date, certain well-defined trends which will influence the final verdict. In the past they have indicated with considerable accuracy the political temper of the country. In 1928 the primary showed Hoover and Smith as the two party candidates, and the final election gave the Republican candidate the presidency. The present CRIMSON poll, taken in a metropolitan university community, reflects in microcosm the political mind of the nation...