Word: temperments
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...blue and men in grey marched and countermarched and the Secretary of War met the Secretary of the Navy in midfield and shook hands politely. The score was 14 to 14. Cagle of the Army finagled through 44 yards for a touchdown. Shapley of the Navy lost his temper but kept enough control to pave the way for another touchdown. Score...
...those individuals from whom Charlestonians had learned to expect misery-a "dark" Chantrell, like her twin brother, Stephen. In him their hot strain from a Latin ancestor was provided with a safety outlet; his temper could boil over. Cordelia was mistress of her intensities, to her great misfortune, and it was she who resolved a grave dilemma into happiness for Stephen and tragedy for herself, tragedy punctuated by two pistol shots...
...would have been superhuman of red-headed Preston not to lose his temper at Stephen in the Penmarch library right afterwards. The frigid formalities of a "meeting" completed, he drew his pistol and fired. Cordelia, sure in her purpose, was there to knock his arm aside, so Stephen was not hurt, but Preston left Charleston believing in his New England heart that there was blood between him and the Chantrells, his best friends...
...make good or be derided. Furthermore an eleven-year-old boy dying of blood poisoning in Essex Fields, N. J., had sent him a telegram asking for a home run. The appeal was exactly the sort of thing to appeal to Ruth's theatrical, large, and warmly human temper. "As soon as I knocked my first run," he said, "I thought to myself: 'There's one for the sick kid.' ' Before the day was over he had knocked two more and accounted for five runs. Rallying their bats behind him, the listless Yankees hammered...
...present the "Bratt Monopoly" pays a fixed return of 5% to shareholders, and to the Government all surplus profits-totaling some 112,000,000 kroner ($30,000,000) annually. Because of the easygoing temper of the people, the "Bratt system" has occasioned little friction, has reduced the consumption of alcohol 50% in such cities as Stockholm, and appears to ration out alcohol in just sufficient quantities to make smuggling unprofitable. This "golden mean" of Swedish "regulation" contrasts sharply with Norwegian "prohibition" of all liquors of more than 45% alcoholic content. In Norway, though wines and beers are at everyone...