Word: temperedly
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...Kansas espouses is likely not only to have the firm support of the farmer, but to have a good chance of enactment provided the Presidential veto does not intervene. At any rate as leader of the Senate farm bloc, Mr. Capper has as much power to disturb the even temper of that body's procedure as Mr. Curtis, his colleague, the majority leader, has to carry out the Administration's policies...
...hoped, then, that the United States will handle the negotiations with gloves, respecting the natural temper and the prestige of a government that is actually trying to make Mexico a nation. It is to be hoped that the false contention of the Mexican Foreign Minister will not be too aggressively held up to view; and that American interference will not be such as to jeopardize any chances of lasting peace on the southern border...
...Supreme Court which pretty well establishes that a U. S. Senator is a state officer, but in a case similar to Mr. Nye's the Senate once took the opposite attitude. The committee on Privileges and Elections will consider Mr. Nye, and from their temper last week it is likely that the regular Republicans will then seat...
Early in the week cables from Arica envisioned a complete abandonment of the Commission's labors and made much of the alleged "slight" to General Pershing. Later the situation quieted. General Pershing was reported to have kept his temper and assured Seņor Edwards that the, plebiscite will be hastened on the arrival of seven U. S. officers despatched last week to Arica to aid in securing an impartial vote...
...chime of bells recently installed in un uptown church. Just when the nurse gets the baby to sleep, five o'clock strikes with much metallic prelude; and by the time the miracle is once more accomplished, the chime strikes the quarter with such gusto that the child's temper is permanently ruined. There is a great deal of romance about bells; but is not fully evident anywhere within a radius of half a mile...