Word: temperments
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This fuss about General Patton losing his temper (TIME, Nov. 29, Dec. 6) makes us look pretty soft. Who the hell ever heard of a war going on without some emotional excitement? If, in his excitement, he struck the wrong man, why start an uproar...
...only man who has lost his temper and struck even his own son? . . . I wonder how many of us have the right to cast the first stone...
When Governor Dewey had to postpone the Lepke execution for the third time, his temper reached a shrewdly timed boiling point. In a statement that landed Lepke in big-time politics, the Governor wrote: "I have twice respited the executions of Capone and Weiss because I will not consider their cases while the principal defendant [Lepke] is protected from punishment by the failure of the President of the United States to grant the customary conditional pardon...
...increasingly obvious that the people of Britain are annoyed by the free-spending, free-loving, free-speaking U.S. troops. Worn by a long war, already crowded on an island that is about the size of Oregon with more than 40 times its population, the British are understandably short of temper...
...last July. He landed "almost in the arms" of three German soldiers, was herded with seven other Americans into a box car, trundled to Lüneburg. At a way station an angry crowd gathered, threw rocks, splashed hot coffee on the flyers, shouted "Schwein," worked up a lynching temper. The guards motioned to the prisoners to follow, started dodging through blacked-out alleys toward a police station. Another crowd blocked the way, and one or two of the soldiers offered to lend the prisoners revolvers if shooting started. It did not, but Benny was sure the civilians would have...