Word: temperments
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...this time the resolution had become a far more dangerous thing to the Republicans than the original resolution to which Senator Smoot had agreed. But the temper of the Senate was apparent from the votes on the King and the Norris amendments, and the Republicans allowed the resolution to be passed viva voce...
...twice winning election for Wilson; the story of ths passage of the Federal Reserve Act; gives the impressions House formed of all the leaders of England, Germany and France; tells the methods of diplomacy which House used; tells a hundred incidents, such as how the imperturbable House lost his temper with the British Ambassador at Washington, how Von Bethmann-Hollweg explained his famous phrase, "a scrap of paper...
...offing, a flood of investigations seems to be in prospect, but how much the Republican action can hold back the flood is dubious. Even if a committee reports adversely on a proposed investigation, the Senate is likely to order the investigation if it continues in its present temper...
...these gentry, Mr. Chamberlain queried oratorically amid lively applause, "Why should not we be free to take advantage of the skill of any man qualified or unqualified, it being understood that anyone who goes to an unqualified man goes at his own risk, and must take the consequences?" The temper of the House was seen to be so markedly against the resolution that it was allowed to peter out by general assent, although no actual vote was taken. U. S. physicians recalled that famed vegetarian G. B. Shaw and numerous other enlightened Englishmen swear by the officially non-existent "bone...
...Such were the Gargantuan interludes which Prince Bismarck could conjure about him like a spell. His wife, Johanna von Puttkamer, was of a milder temper. Yet their daughter got on well with her mother, too. In the Princess Bismarck's absence she presided over the famed Yellow Salon so graciously that a newspaper of the day declared: "She has become a remarkably fine woman, whose wit and intelligence are the theme of general praise...