Word: temperments
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...letters like Henderson's. If you do not publish this so he can read it, please give me his address and I'll give him a piece of a woman's mind and you know what that will mean when a woman really gets her Irish temper...
...Cabinet before the House of Commons on a multiplicity of bills and issues which must have kept him slaving over the preparation of his speeches through many a night. Withal, rubicund Sir Douglas Hogg, who greatly resembles Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, has kept his cheeks pink, his temper cool, his jokes fresh, his judgment sound...
...Difference was attributed to overproduction of crude oil. Of 1928 said President W. S. Parish: "Any measure of prosperity that comes to the industry this year must come through the utmost caution and conservatism on the part of each individual unit of the industry, large or small. We must temper our effortis to produce crude, and as refiners we jmust not overproduce our markets for gasoline...
...said, "are the limit!" Certain modern methods in the Office she was pleased to call "the deficiency system." To her mind efficiency was the prerogative of individuals: any encroachment of the mechanical on the personal she balked at. "I was born saucy"; and, again, "I may lose my temper; but I never lose my head...
Facile Andre Maurois, biographer in the new imaginative manner, brings a foreigner's sympathy to Benjamin Disraeli, Jew, enigma, suspect; gauges his ambition, lists the obstacles, counts the defeats, shows that Disraeli learned to temper his brilliance with patience until at last, aged and broken, he attained "the top of the slippery pole" of politics...