Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shrill shrieks. of excursion trains freighting patrons in to the great Welsh singing contest, the Eisteddfod. From the U. S., from China even, and from the pits of the Cornish mines and the backbush of the mountains came the lusty contenders. They thundered for a week in Celtic conflict...
...GREAT GOD BROWN-A deep and sometimes confused conflict of stupid jealousy and brilliant weakness...
Envy, Jealousy, Resentment. . . . When you read the comment in foreign journals and consider the contrast between our prosperity and the destitution abroad it takes a very blunt imagination not to be disturbed. . . . Every nation hates us. ... In this bitter feeling there is the making of a conflict that would not only hurl us down from our high place but, in destroying us, destroy civilization. . . .I am no alarmist.-Bruce Barton, President Barton, Durstine, and Osborne Advertising Agency...
...given four reasons by its officers for refusing admission to the National Woman's Party: 1) That the League of Women Voters had objected to it; 2) That Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the Alliance, had objected; 3) That if admission were granted there would be a conflict of opinion in the American group; 4) That the Woman's Party had given news directly to the press in Paris without sending it through the official press bureau. The last objection was stressed, and the Woman's Party merely answered that it was "too trivial for consideration...
...rumbles of the conflict which started in March over the admission of Germany, to a permanent seat on the council are even now disturbing the Geneva organization. Spain and Brazil remain firm in their threat to resign if they are not awarded permanent seats...