Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coaxed, pleaded, wheedled. He prayed, "Jesus, isn't there a paycheck in the audience?" He pointed to various people and berated them for their lack of faith. Deprived of converts, he demanded fifty dollar checks and threatened those who would not give with "sleepless nights." Finally he lost his temper and shouted, "all right, you don't have to stay, go on out" It was pouring rain outside, but the crowd started to file...
...Jordan's premier, Tewfik Pasha, quickly squashed the plot. The British quietly decided that Talal ought to take over from Naif. In betting on Talal, London took a calculated risk. Talal has been violently anti-British. In one of his fits of temper, he reportedly slapped the respected face of Glubb Pasha, British head of the Legion. Said he once: "If I am insane, it is with a hatred of the British...
Iron Man (Universal-International) seems bent on proving that if a man has a bad enough temper, he can become heavyweight champion of the world. Jeff Chandler, a coal miner whose only real ambitions are to marry Evelyn Keyes and own a radio store, has a nasty habit of going efficiently berserk when anyone mocks him. Egged on by his sweetheart and ne'er-do-well brother (Stephen McNally), Chandler soon bowls over all the local heavyweights and moves on to the big city. Booed by the fans as a dirty fighter and damned by the newspapers...
...include plans for a quick south-of-the-border divorce from Wife Nancy (who is about to bring her own suit in California), Frankie snarled: "You're wasting your time. Why don't you go home and have your dinner?" In Mexico City he lost his temper again and La Prensa labeled him "the mediocre tenor of very limited resources [who] hates newsmen...
Tears of Gratitude. Mario likes the grand gesture, whether he is in a temper tantrum or a mood of warmhearted generosity. When he learned that Louis B. Mayer, cofounder and chief of the M-G-M lot, seemed to be on his way out, Lanza remembered that Mayer had fought an almost lone battle to get The Great Caruso made. He telephoned Mayer to express concern and ask whether he could help the man long ranked as Hollywood's No. 1 executive. Mayer-as Lanza recalls the incident-wept tears of gratitude...