Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that it is because he did not smoke or drink. One old lady gave the credit to having had apple pie for breakfast every morning. But most would agree with the 103-year-old man in McHenry, Ill. who said: "If you want to live long, never lose your temper." What do they eventually die of? Not, as a rule, from the diseases of old age. It seems to Dr. Dunbar that most of them "decide when they will die, and usually each dies about the date he has set. Perhaps this is because consciously they are in better control...
...association's nutrition experts, meeting in San Francisco last week, agreed that the poll represented the most scathing indictment of the American Mom since Philip Wylie (in Generation of Vipers) held her over his hot temper and roasted her to a charred turn. The story behind the breakfastless children, the experts reported, is that Mom is a slugabed who refuses to get up in time to scramble the eggs and perc the coffee. Furthermore, the survey showed, many teen-age girls are scared by diet-conscious mothers into skipping breakfast. Then, after the breakfastless daughter goes off to school...
...Gorman graduated to Frank Lloyd Wright's "organic" architecture. He became a crusader for regional design, scorning European influences, concentrating on Mexican materials and forms that fitted Mexican tradition and environment. But in those days such ideas were against the temper of the times, and commissions were hard to get. So O'Gorman turned to painting, and developed in two directions at once: some of his canvases were meticulously realistic, others violently expressionistic. He enjoys his imaginative painting. But his conscience makes him prefer his realistic style because "it is easier to look at and live with...
...deeply set, are penetrating, but full of an expression which almost amounts to tenderness . . . One would say that, although the mouth was made to enjoy a joke, it could also utter the severest sentence which the head could dictate, but that Mr. Lincoln would be ever more willing to temper justice with mercy . . ." That is the way Foreign Correspondent William Howard Russell sketched President Lincoln in 1861. It was this extraordinary gift for writing closeups (in an age when the camera was in its infancy) that made Russell one of the most famous newspapermen of his day, and one whose...
...sketchy underwear whenever he took it off. Like many an other supposedly invulnerable fellow, he was exposed, when in the buff, as more of a maudlin breast-beater than a Front Page chesty. Swept up by the Chicago literary movement just before World War I, he tried to temper his fondness for cadavers with pious offerings at the shrine of The Little Review. In its inner circle a young man might hear anything from a first reading of Sandburg's Chicago to Maxwell Bodenheim's murmuring cottony love messages into the rapt ears of plump bluestockings ("Your face...