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...Congress, purchased a first-class railroad fare from his home in Chicago to Hot Springs, Ark., he was familiar with the Arkansas law specifying "equal, but separate and sufficient accommodations" for both races. But when his Pullman reservation was refused at the Arkansas line, Arthur Mitchell swallowed his temper, declined a proffered rebate, obeyed the conductor's order to continue his journey in what he described as the "filthy and foul-smelling" Jim Crow coach up ahead...
...shivering photographers, muffled to the cheekbones, escort a beauteous damsel to the Tidal Basin and tell her to go climb a tree. Usually the Cherry Blossom Queen, posing as regally as possible while sitting on a knobby tree branch, gets runs in her stockings, barked knuckles and a ruffled temper...
...declining years, while World War I hammered at the gates of Paris, white-bearded old Renoir lived on a farm in the south of France. He was nearly paralyzed with arthritis, but with paintbrushes lashed to his gnarled hands, he still painted his sunset-colored nudes, still kept a temper as sunny as a boy's. When an irate admirer appeared with a forged Renoir, suggesting that the old man should sue the forger, Renoir merely painted the forgery over, made it into a genuine Renoir...
Newshawks (whom he hated) and col leagues last week recalled some episodes of Sir Frederick's turbulent career. He was a stubborn man of strong feelings, sudden temper, trenchant speech. After insulin was discovered in 1921, Biochemist James Bertram Collip was called in to polish up the glandular extraction technique. The stuff began to be called "Collip's extract." Banting leaped on Collip in the university halls, threw him down, banged his head on the floor, bellowed: "So, you will call this 'Collip's extract,' will...
Once Miller got in to see Jesse Jones-a visit that ended quickly with both men hopping mad. Afterward he wrote to Jones: "You are so cloistered I do not think you know what is going on in your office. . . . RFC's officiousness, ill will bad temper and manners have interested me." When he heard that one of Jones's secretaries had described him as "obnoxious and a nuisance," he wrote in Hickory News: "The reason I am a nuisance . . . is that I remind these men of their carelessness, inefficiency and incompetence." Such colorful invective appealed to anti...