Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real admirals to deliver about the country. The Navy Department accepted these "canned goods" for distribution. They were full of controversial matter involving ratios, tonnage, parity, building plans and the like. By chance one of the sample speeches from the Navy League reached the White House. President Hoover's temper flared. He instantly ordered Secretary Adams to countermand the League's propaganda and to instruct officers in their Navy Day addresses to stick to non-controversial subjects...
...Worksop in Nottinghamshire he took a day off from his own troubles to plead for the re-election of his son Malcolm. Again the MacDonald temper wore thin...
...Foshay is now engaged as vice president of Mountain Cross Granite Co. of Salida, Col., owned by Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Chicago drugchainer. Over the Foshay desk used to hang a motto which apparently serves to temper his prosperity as well as his adversity: "Why worry? It won't last. Nothing does...
...stains half her fingernails blood red; that she has a sports ensemble consisting of yellow crocodile shoes, a tip-tilted red hat, tight black woolen dress and Scotch plaid coat. "I send Mother a radiogram every day," confessed Josette, "to inform her of the state of Father's temper and health...
There is something in the American temper, something quickly sensed by European visitors, that tolerates an incongrous mixing of the practical and the aesthetic. As early as the eighteenth century, Samuel Sewall's diary records as a matter of course that Sewall's family, on an outing, sang psalms and played games by turns. Indeed, this same trail, together with a good proportion of well-varnished dishonesty, is responsible for the present pitiful condition of American advertising...