Word: temperments
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...Street, in Gothic buildings as sizable as one side of a college quadrangle. The great hall's gallery, officers' dais, and rows of facing benches recall the House of Commons scene as sharply as its casually businesslike, irrelevantly witty proceedings recall the Commons' tempo and temper...
South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts has also tried for years to temper the country's harsh anti-Indian color laws. The latest of them, which has caused South Africa's voteless Indians to hum like a swarming hive, is a Natal ordinance dividing the whole province into Jim Crow residential zones. Smuts...
Joseph Wood Krutch, biographer-critic (The Modern Temper; Edgar Allan Poe) and drama editor of the Nation, has made one of the most thorough examinations yet of Johnson and his friends. His biography, jampacked with Johnsoniana, is no specialist's study: it is for the general reader, who may find parts of it?such as the chapters on Johnson as critic and philosopher?slowgoing. But he can hardly fail to enjoy the lovingly collected abundance of anecdotes and sayings which are Johnson's rightful claim to fame...
Your biggest asset is your readers' confidence in your statements. Think that over before you write your next campaign article and temper your desires with judgment...
...began with the assurance that he would not lose his head or his temper. Then, in the tone of a Dutch uncle, he reviewed his Administration's foreign policy. Since this was frankly a political speech -although the Foreign Policy Association is nonpartisan-the President obviously reviewed only the good points...