Word: temperately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Disposition and Temper," Professor McDougall, Emerson D. Psychology...
Turati. As the loyal mechanic stepped down, there stepped up into his place Signor Augusto Turati of Brescia, a newspaper man of milder temper. It was asserted widely last week that this exchange is designed to mark the end of what has been called the "Fascist phase of terror." The moderate Fascist clique, headed by Minister of Interior Luigi Federozoni, is announced to have won Mussolini over to a slightly less harsh and repressive policy. Last week the event of significant note was merely that Farinacci did as he was told, resigned. Observers opined that he will certainly be rewarded...
...concert last night has failed to cure my cold and after I have munched my coffee roll and duly recognized the decadence of these times as reflected on the front page of the Herald I shall be in no mood for ought but snuffling. "Le Misanthrope" should fit my temper at 10 o'clock and in Sever 23 I shall be able to think of a dinky little provincial troupe of actors who once played their Moliere at Grenoble in such a way that I minded not my complete ignorance of the tongue. Or I can find an even more...
...present Prince of Wales lay flat upon his back, kicked, squalled. "Lala" disciplined him, and later dried his tears. As a child, even the serene Princess Mary had her tantrums. "Lala" soothed her temper, tidied her frock. Later she assisted the youthful Prince Henry and the still younger Prince George to blow their noses, etc. For years, in fact, "Lala" was indispensable as the nursery maid of the Windsors...
...West as a whole is generally considered more progressive and more favorable to innovations than the East. I don't think this distinction holds in the colleges. In fact the students of our great Eastern universities, particularly of Harvard, seem to have shown a more inquiring and radical temper, than those in the West...