Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Swinburne divulged his famed outburst against Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose reported remarks had offended Swinburne. When Gosse learned that Swinburne had written to Emerson, he said: " 'I hope you said nothing rash.' 'Oh, no.' 'But what did you say?' I kept my temper. I preserved my equanimity.' 'Yes, but what did you say?' 'I called him,' replied Swinburne in his chanting voice, 'a wrinkled and toothless baboon who, first hoisted into notoriety on the shoulders of Carlyle, now spits and sputters on a filthier platform...
...comfort but he thought it far beneath him. Brodie had built himself a house the town wondered at: too small for a castle, too grand for a small house. But no one laughed at Brodie to his face. A bull of a man. he had a bull's temper, a bull's disregard of neighbors' china-shops. Brutal autocrat in his own home and shop, he carried his domineering into every presence but Aristo crat Sir James Latta's (whose blood he secretly thought ran in his own veins...
...once," he ordered as he turned from the telephone. But no car came. Camp cooks continued to prepare Sunday dinner. The President's temper began to rise. He repeated his command, louder this time: "Get my car AT ONCE!" A few minutes later the White House motor rolled up before him. Behind it came the presidential bodyguard, buttoning their shirts and tying their cravats as they scrambled into their escort car. A brief nod of farewell to his camp guests and President Hoover, without dinner, started down the mountain toward the capital 112 mi. away. Thirty miles along...
...admixture of good buffoonery, high audacity, bad temper and bad taste appeared on newsstands this week in the form of Editor Norman Anthony's Ballyhoo, ballyhooed as the funny magazine devoid of advertising (TIME, May n). Much of the content was devoted to burlesques of familiar advertising campaigns. Therein lay most of its humor, most of its audacity, some of its bad taste. Examples...
...Anthony temper was most bitterly expressed in a page headed "We Nominate for Oblivion-," an imitation of the feature created some months ago by Vanity Fair. Nominated for oblivion by Ballyhoo are Vanity Fair because its Oblivion department is "unsportsman-like"; Life, because "it cannot make up its mind whether to imitate Judge or the New Yorker...