Word: temperance
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...blustering as the play would have him. Charles Laughton, as Elizabeth's domineering papa, and, incidentally, the villain of this interesting-because-true plot, succeeds in making one hate him thoroughly because of his superb handling of a part calling for alternate restraint and outbursts of temper...
...movement caught the popular fancy and was militantly endorsed by the rest of the Paris papers. At this point Pernod Fils is supposed to have paid off the publisher, whereupon he retracted as best he could, but too late, as soon thereafter the Government took advantage of the public temper and banned the sale of absinthe. The moral of the story seems to be that soon thereafter the publisher was caught in another blackmailing scheme and sent to prison for a term of years...
...second housing difficulty was that the New Deal has filled every office in Washington. Mr. Moffett's temper grew so short that for a while it looked as if the whole Housing Administration might be moved out of the Capital to Manhattan. At last some rooms were set aside in the new Post Office Building...
...matter of temper, not temperament, among writers, possibly only Theodore Dreiser betters him. That prognathous jaw is forever setting itself in grim determination that someone "shall be cut from ear to ear." He gets actively annoyed on the slightest provocation and his huge fists contract in his more or less consistent effort to control himself. He trembles on the brink of explosion most of the time. His indignation is righteous and his anger is of the inspiring kind that would end in a knockdown drag-out fight?if he hadn't spent 62 years learning to keep in leash...
Augustabernard, noted for her temper. is popular in the U. S. She is noted for her superb technique which makes her dresses the favorites of connoisseurs. Commercial buyers are less enthusiastic. Her gowns depend on expensive materials, are difficult to copy. But she has a large following among well-bred socialites, dresses some of the smartest women in Paris...