Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...town hall. Previously, the hippopotamus had waddled about the business district of St. John's on two occasions and had once strolled from his home in the Umzipulu River to Durban, where he entered the lobby of a hotel. Friendly, the hippopotamus is reported to have lost his temper only once, when natives threw stones at him, causing him to charge them, injuring...
...about to tell all he knows, a fusillade rings out from an upper box of the theatre, thus somehow terminating the legal proceedings. Last act is a flashback to Room No. 349, a scene in which Mr. Stromberg is portrayed as being wise, powerful, philanthropic, tender. His short temper, his desire to "quit the racket" and marry Babette are given as reasons for the quarrel and the shooting. But the shooting occurs in the dark, just where audiences were left, along with the New York Police Department, after the actual Rothstein killing...
Heroine Erne Gallows is an orphaned Scotch girl, strong, passionate, beautiful. From her sailor father she inherits a reckless temper, an honest eye. The villagers mistrust her independence; they get drunk at her wedding but think her husband a queer, weak sort of man for her to pick. They are enlightened and glad when she is pregnant before her time. Her lover comes to the fair; there is a brawl, her husband is killed. Effie marries the schoolteacher, who has always loved her; a few months later her child is born, but it is weakly, and soon dies. Then...
...other nations should at last do justice to their own Romantic genius. The volume has been well received in Paris and it is to be concluded that it is for Hugo's compatriots an altogether satisfactory up-to-the-minute estimate. That it is equally agreeable to the American temper seems to this reviewer very doubtful...
Instead of flying into a temper, or sinking into a dignified sulk the "Iron Man" answered crisply...