Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faced, hot-eyed Arab leader, fanned the flame of hatred for France before a crowd of some 1,700 turbaned Arabs and serge-suited French Communists. His listeners answered with frenzied screams and gesticulations. In the midst of the hubbub, a French undercover agent slipped away to report the temper of the meeting to French Administrator Philippe Boniface. Boniface hurried to his Moroccan counterpart, bearded Mohammed El Mokri, Pasha of Casablanca...
...Americans don't have the guts to be bullfighters." This remark, tossed off in a Mexico City café, infuriated a young poster artist with flaming red hair and a temper to match. He flared back: "Americans have more guts in their little fingers than the rest of the world put together!" To make good his boast, Brooklyn-born Sidney Franklin had to learn enough about bullfight technique to get through a face-saving appearance with yearling bulls at a rancho in the country. That was back in 1922, and with time off for wars, revolutions and surgical operations...
...mentioned specifically, in four passing sentences though there is repeated reference to it as a pond.") Similarly, in a review of Bernard DeVoto's Mark Twain at Work, he ends with the thought that "DeVoto seems determined to prove through his tub-thumping exaggerations that he possesses every temper but the critical temper...
...secrets, 2) Don't discount all criticism, 3) Don't bridle, publicly, about being followed, 4) Don't lie to reporters, 5) Don't drink or swear in public, 6) Don't be patronizing to reporters or photographers, 7) Don't lose your temper in public...
Cartoonist Jimmy Hatlo, a jovial, bigdomed man who explodes into mock-temper tantrums, makes more than $250,000 a year by illustrating his simple theory that things always happen at the worst possible moment. Last week Hatlo, whose syndicated cartoon "They'll Do It Every