Word: catfight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clyde Beatty was thankful that he had got through the trying first day of a new season without a scratch for himself or a catfight among his 40 surly charges. To show business, however, the first day's two performances of the Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus marked a more important accomplishment, one which old John Ringling, last of the seven brothers, vowed he would never see but which he did not see only because he died last December. John Ringling was accustomed to open his season every year in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden with no rival...
Frowning in his southern garden, fatherly little Premier Gaston Doumergue gathered last week that his command to his Cabinet ("Tell the boys to be good") had not appeased the catfight that broke out fortnight ago in his "Government of Appeasement" (TIME, July 30). "Liars! Forgers!" hissed ambitious Conservative Minister André Tardieu, charging the Radical Socialists with complicity in the Stavisky Scandal. "Liar! Cabinet-wrecker!" snarled Radical Socialist Minister Edouard Herriot. "Retract! Resign!" howled both...