Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scrubwomen. This plan failed, and the case was considered concluded until the latest step. The letter of the committee headed by Lamont, on October 24, explained the aim of the fund, "to repair the original injustice and to convince the general public that a more humane and generous temper characterizes Harvard than that which has been displayed by the present administration...
Municipal, State and civic anti-crime drives seemed last week to reflect the present temper of the Government...
Strengthened by his enemies' foul play, but still doubtful of what lay in store, Stanley Baldwin went to Caxton Hall. The big Conservative meeting rose and cheered him while Baron Beaverbrook glowered. Attempting to defend Leader Baldwin, loyal Viscount Hailsham of Hailsham unwittingly disclosed the real temper of the conclave when, at the conclusion of his speech, he asked, indicating Mr. Baldwin, "Who is there to take his place...
...whose trousers showed a bag at the knees through the newly acquired press, young mechanics with large browned hands. All of them were there to honor the late great George Westinghouse, inventor, industrialist. Many present had worked with him, had known him as "The Old Man," whose impetuous, unreasoning temper and whose wholehearted consideration were amazing contradictions. The statue, erected by Westinghouse employes and friends, memorialized the genius which, though lately overshadowed by publicity for Thomas Alva Edison, was one of the . main generators of the Electrical...
...abiding, he wanted to be elected sheriff. With his brothers Luther and Jim, his henchmen Brant White and Deadwood, he overawed many a would-be bad man, kept the peace in spite of tantalizing taunts. Even when they called him "Saint John- son," Wayt kept his temper. But when he got a city ordinance passed forbidding firearms to be carried in Alkali, trouble gath- ered like thunderheads in summer. Finally, Wayt's patience tried too far, Alkali saw a gunfight it never forgot. Afterward, when he sheriff tried to serve a warrant on the Johnsons, they laughed...