Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Ben Hecht writes with violence but without bad temper. Consequently his forceful delineations of character carry weight even when they are brutally offensive. Jo Boshere will leave few readers without some fellow-feeling. Hecht's dialog is nearer real life than most authors dare go. Ben Hecht was a small, dark, demoniac member of the Chicago literary circle that gave the U. S. such figures as Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg. Big-eyed, thick-lipped, baldish, he looks Mediterranean rather than Jewish. With Charles MacArthur (husband of Actress Helen Hayes) he wrote the Broadway smash...
...short, the Senate is finding it very easy to criticize, now that the work has been done. It is interesting to consider what sort of report a commission composed of wet and dry Senators could bring forth. Judging by the recent temper of the Senate, one might surmise that the discussion would consist of pugilism and the results would be a knockout...
Harvard men will as a body whole heartedly support the stand taken by the Student Council in condemning the recent subway riots. A small but noisy minority can, and frequently does, impose itself upon the good temper of the majority...
...bears the following title: Prodlgium Willingkamense: Or, authentic Memoirs in the Life of a Boy, Born at Willingham, near Cambridge, October 31, 1741; who, before he was Three Years old, was Three Feet, Eight inches high And had the Marks of Puberty. With some Reflections on his Understanding, Strength, Temper, Memory, Genius and Knowledge. By T. Dawkes, Surgeon. London...
Mightier than the Soviet Supreme Court is the ZIK. The Presidium (standing committee) of ZIK met in Moscow last week to temper Red justice with Red mercy. During the previous night, at 11:27 p. m., the Supreme Court justices (including two workmen) had brought in their verdict upon the eight engineers accused of plotting with prominent foreigners (see p. 20) and specifically with the French General Staff to overthrow the Soviet State (TIME, Nov. 24; Dec. 8). With a glass of hot tea at his elbow, Presiding Justice Vyshinsky faced the microphone, told all Russia for an hour...