Word: temperments
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...sultry Georgia kitchen, Berenice Sadie Brown, the Negro cook, was dealing greasy cards. Berenice, an experienced woman, had had four husbands. One of her eyes was made of blue glass (husband No. 4 in a fit of temper had gouged out the original). John Henry West, who was six years old, "watched all of the cards very carefully, because he was in debt; he owed Berenice more than five million dollars." Frankie Addams, who was nearly 13, sat with her eyes closed and wondered how on earth she could convince Berenice and the rest of the world that her real...
Parliamentary Language. In Cape Town, South Africa, Member of Parliament Louis Bosnian lost his temper, called M.P. Johannes Serfontein "a concentrated mass of protoplasmic nitrogenous venom...
...Ionized air (electrically charged) to step up efficiency. A negative charge, the Germans found, produces a feeling of buoyancy and optimism, reduces high blood pressure and nervous strain. (A positive charge has the opposite effects: it produces ill-temper, depression and fear...
...tougher the pressure gets, the better Chester Bowles seems to like it. A once-thwarted public servant and social thinker who has just come into his own, he loves his job. Where onetime Price Boss Leon Henderson let the heat frazzle his temper, where onetime Price Boss Prentiss Brown simply got out as fast as he could, Chester Bowles plows ahead with unconcealed pleasure, his big jaw jutting forward like the prow of one of the boats he used to sail in races to Bermuda...
Like most good conductors, Leopold Stokowski has a temper. Once he held up a Montevideo concert for half an hour while ushers gathered up programs which said his real name was Stokes.* Once the silver-haired maestro walked out on the Mexico Symphony Orchestra after a fuss-&-feathers over an incomplete orchestration. Last week in Cuba, Stokie was in another skirmish with Latin Americans...