Word: temperance
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...Spank a child only for extreme misdemeanors (e.g., for a temper tantrum, for shouting "Shut...
Divorced. Homer Martin, onetime Baptist preacher, onetime hop-step-jump champion, onetime president of the United Auto Workers, now describing himself as a "manufacturer's agent"; from Norina M. Martin; after 18 years of marriage; in Detroit. Grounds: she had a violent temper...
Kenneth Roberts has a legendary temper, on which he practices great self-control. But self-control in his case is said to be a brief, turkey-red moment between the rush of blood to his face and an outburst that begins (in milder cases) with goddam, ends (several minutes later) in total verbal annihilation. Fellow authors like Booth Tarkington, Ben Ames Williams, Samuel Blythe have publicized these tantrums with such glee that the suspicion has grown that Roberts rages are also literary, less an adrenalin effusion than a character signature like Wotan's motif in the Nibelungen Ring...
...drink. Then, brandishing a knife, he cursed his patient, threatened to kill him. Furious, the crippled man sprang to his feet. With his patient hot on his trail, the doctor leaped on the horse and escaped. From a safe distance, he sent an explanation: the patient's fiery temper had dissolved the already softened humors. No one knows whether he enclosed a bill. But he added diplomatically that it would be "inexpedient" for them ever to meet again...
...Lieut. Ickes launched his attack, the President himself got into an argument with a reporter (Scripps-Howard's grey little Fred Perkins) who wanted to know whether he really meant what he had said at Cleveland last fortnight about retiring after Term III.* Mr. Roosevelt's Dutch temper flared. Newsman Perkins ought to go back to grade school, said he, and learn English...