Word: temperments
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...books (Treasure Island, Rob Roy), Kidnapped shuns the grandeurs that encumber most of Hollywood's hysterical historicals. The picture is made to the scale of the book, which is modest. Unfortunately, in trying to keep it small, Director Stevenson has also made it insignificant; and in trying to temper its excitement, he has let it become dull...
...Reward was disqualified at a cost of $77,800 to Owner Elizabeth Arden Graham, and Tim Tam went on to win the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. It was at about that point that trainers began shrugging Ycaza off as a foolish kid who let a hot temper cancel out cold talent...
...five winners in three days at Aqueduct-and not one of his rides was beneath the dignity of a man with a family coat of arms. Says Ycaza: "I used to want to win so much that I got excited when anything interfered, and I would lose my temper. Now I still have the same temper, but I know I've got to hold...
...principle of family planning. In this light, "there need be no difference" between Protestants and Catholics as to policy. The remaining differences, he suggested, are about method-the "safe period and abstinence" endorsed as the only permissible ones by the Catholic Church, and "other methods" approved by Protestants. The temper of the debate in the U.S. might be very different if it took its cue from Dr. Fisher's conclusion: "It is wise to leave the decision as to what methods are seemly to the conscientious judgment of Christian married couples...
...sniffed: "You made Liza a cockney just to torment me," and he snapped back: "I'm surprised you find it so difficult to be common." But Mrs. Pat must have minded his use of dialect less than his turn for didacticism. Where she was always losing her temper, he was al ways playing the teacher. When she seemed large and unmistakably feminine, he was a touch small as well as neuter...