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The Literary Lounger: Turf Memories

... Bad Temper horses in Horses. q name for bad temper Are horses naturally bad-tempered, or is it the result of bad treatment in the stable Well, here is a man who has lived with horses and studied them all his life, and he says flatly that bad temper is ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1925
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2591 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

THE WRONG ROAD

... and a hard-working clerk in a booking-office. Mrs. Lelue, on the other hand, develops from the staid and perfect, if ill-tempered, housekeeper into a desperate criminal, with a taste for man's attire, blackmail, murder, arson, and general intrigue. It ...

Published: Wednesday 05 August 1903
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 393 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

THE HEART OF THE VICAR

... revelation of the depths to which sordid villainy may go, yet he is drawn with so light a touch that one's indignation is tempered with something akin to toleration. As for Moilie and the Vicar, they are lovable creations; and Martha, Mollie's devoted ...

Published: Wednesday 03 August 1904
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 349 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... And before I reluctantly leave Northbridge Rectory I must pay a tribute to the striking excellence of its literary stvle. Temper and Temperament in Venice. My chief complaint against Mrs. Margaret Cardew's very interesting first novel, A House in Venice ...

Published: Wednesday 08 October 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2165 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... But sympathy was not ultimate in the temper of the eternal spirit con templation was. Love was not absolute contemplation was. And though there was love, there was also hate comprised within the spirit's temper, for there was cruel delight in the co ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1937
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2154 | Page: 60 | Tags: Review 

A Very English Dodsworth: Fine Acting by Philip Merivale and Gladys Cooper despite some Miscasting

... Cornish. Whether this last word he spelled with a small or large c, he was in a bad temper, partly because it is a convention that stage explorers should be in a bad temper, and partly because Mrs. Galbraith, unimpressed by the explorations of her husband ...

Our Captious Critic

... attractions of dual parts in so many plays. It is true that the wicked young barrister is always' bad-tempered and the good young barman always good- tempered but as the barrister's state of mind is due to cocaine you have not so much the I sensation of watching ...

LITERATURE: Some Books of the Day: Liberty in England; The National Refuges

... Miss Weston's Royal Navy Temperance Society. Admiral Sir George King Hall, a member of the Arethusa committee and a keen temperance advocate, has helped to bring about this movement. Here is an opportunity for all temperance advo cates to support a good ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1532 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

ENTERTAINMENTS à la CARTE: Sorrows of a Strong Man

... chair is said to be a gift from the theatrical gods. The wheeled chair arrests attention, collects sympathy, gives a tang to temper and a relish to renunciation, absolves the actor from acting with his limbs, leaves him physically relaxed between one emotional ...

Published: Wednesday 30 June 1937
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1011 | Page: 23 | Tags: Review 

In Search of Egeria

... he plays it, whether landing at Liverpool like the Spartan boy, with his diva's tov-terrier beneath his waist coat (good temper was not the dog's forte, and his teeth were sharp), or mourning at the grave of Miriam Lucy, who taught him that prayer ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1911
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 379 | Page: 52 | Tags: Review 

Jaffery

... absence with half the joint on his plate while his tumblers had to be pint ones. With it all, Jaffery was pure Sir Galahad tempered by his profession of war correspondent. Two widows, left by their husbands to his chivalry, develop this more spiritual side ...

Published: Wednesday 11 August 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 381 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

Pickanock

... picnic in the grove shouting the tunes of Kick the Pope, or The Protestant Boys, and evading the liquor laws proper to a temperance or dry township in honour of the day. The old man whose strapping children multiply and possess the forest came out from ...

Published: Wednesday 27 November 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 413 | Page: 60 | Tags: Review