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...when the New York Mayor parked his car across the taxi line. Fiorello offered to lick any three taxi drivers, was led off gesticulating by airline officials. >> General John J. Pershing, 80, lay ill of age's infirmities in Walter Reed Hospital. >> Eugene Meyer lost his well-kept temper when his plane hit a storm, a tray-bearing stewardess hit the floor, and a chicken leg came to rest on his trim grey head. >> John L Lewis' maid refused to sit in a Jim Crow seat, got arrested, said "Mr. Lewis will fix you for this." >> Representative Clare...
...Temper? Don't fool with nitroglycerin," the Naval Academy's Lucky Bag recorded of Ernie King when he graduated in 1901 (after a mid-school interlude of active duty during the Spanish-American War, on patrol off the Atlantic Coast). That temper subsequently hindered his Navy career, made enemies, often saddened friends who had the utmost faith in his capacities. Testifying before Congressional committeemen, he has been known to fly into ugly, inarticulate rage. Such incidents did him no good, either with Congress or with the Navy command...
Then Mark Ethridge's patience cracked: in a scourging speech he resigned from making his radio survey, said that the President "was deceived" and "almost betrayed," and bitterly denounced the attempt to regulate the radio industry by "bad temper, impatience and vindictiveness." Fly, waiting on the platform to answer Ethridge, watched in amazement while Miller swiftly adjourned the sessions without calling...
Stamm is thoroughly good-natured, never having unloosed a temper in his thirty-four years. Occasionally, when a class grows a little too boisterous, he tries to coll in with an expression of dour authority. But a student warns, "Temper, temper, little man!" whereupon Teacher breaks into a smile, snaps his fingers and says "Darn...
...pilots of fighting age and temper who, the War Department announced, are also going to Great Britain for duty as observers are young lieutenants -mostly under 25. When they finish their tours abroad, they will know something firsthand about air fighting in modern war. The War Department said that they would do their observing both in multi-seated bombers and in pursuit planes (Spitfires, Hurricanes, etc.). Pursuit observers cannot expect diplomatic immunity from the Luftwaffe, for Spitfires and Hurricanes have only one seat. Already, according to a British account, one U.S. observer who took a Spitfire up for a trial...