In 1931, Mitchell was fired from the Trib after flinging an inkwell at the publisher's wall in a drunken fit of temper, but after a stint as a deckhand on a freighter sailing to the Soviet Union he landed a job at the World-Telegram, then thought to be "the writer's paper.
Mr. Jackman, whose character in the play has not only a volatile temper but also a family that is torn apart by his police work, said he particularly pressed Chicago officers to open up about how their jobs affected their private lives and relationships.
"Are you a folk or an elfit?" Mary fears Agnes's temper, but in a way she doesn't blame her.
He had not only a legendary temper but also an obsessive-compulsive streak incompatible with the mess of raising four children.
Fluttershy has a temper, but it takes a lot to get her mad.
He was trying to hurt them in a fit of temper, but not in a particularly brutal manner.
He had a temper, but also the reputation of a very smart cop, with an innovative instinct; he'd run the drug dealers out of Washington Heights, without alienating the neighborhood, and as the N.Y.P.D.'s deputy commissioner for operations he intimately knew the policing strategies that had given New York its seemingly perpetual reduction in crime.
Everyone knew Pickering drank and had a vile temper, but he put on a fine mass with lots of bells, smells, Latin and children's choirs.
Judge DiMango can display a hot temper, but she also has a soft heart, especially for juvenile offenders whom she admits she tries to scare into changing their lives.
"But how do you also keep people happy?" She says that she hasn't inherited her father's temper, but has raised a finger, and looks well able to take care of herself in a debate.
