Word: trait
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mellon theories of economics and government are neither original in conception nor brilliant in exposition, yet there is a trait of the Mellon mentality which reflects again that fineness of breeding which people have sensed in the lean, grey, little patrician of the Treasury Department. It is in the grand manner intellectually not to worry, not to cross bridges before rivers are reached. This Andrew Mellon never does. To his ability to put off until tomorrow that which is not today's concern, his intimates attribute his unimpaired vigor at an age when most of his business contemporaries...
...classification was right in some respects: witness the time-honored belief in German thoroughness. The continued existence of this trait is seen in a report from Berlin on the thorny path laid out for the diplomats-to-be of the young republic. The German university curriculum is a strenuous enough struggle; but after that, three years of theoretical political studies face the apprentice statesman. Add to this requirement the necessity of completely mastering a minimum of three languages, and of acquiring the sports and social graces of foreign countries; and one sees the same perserverance that has actuated scholars...
...cruelty of ancient and medieval times. We wonder how human beings possessing the average allotment of sanity could ever have taken such fiendish delight in the torture of prisoners or the persecution of martyrs. But what assurance have we that the joy of witnessing pain is a trait of the past? A certain recent event, among other things, makes some of us wonder...
...dragging the Crimson out of the football dumps, no brilliant success has attended his efforts. The surprising fact is that he has escaped, publicly, at least, the customary campaign of organized criticism. Pleasant as it would be to point to this virtue of silence as a distinctive Harvard trait, it must be said that much of the credit is due to the work and personal character of Mr. Horween himself. His quiet, unassuming, and business-like manner make him a difficult mark for the anvil chorus. There is always the feeling that he is working to the best...
...Probably his worst trait," the Dowager Queen Marie says, "is that he loves to tease dogs and cats. He has been bitten several times by dogs, notably last summer, when the palace doctors gave him so much Pasteur treatment that he was sick for a fortnight...