Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Osmena, also a mestico (half caste), exhibits his Chinese extraction in his importunable demeanor, impeccable manners and enduring patience. He has not always agreed with his headlong young friend, being content to guide Filipino destinies slowly as Speaker of the Assembly for almost 20 years. He would be more content than Manuel Quezon to see Philippine Independence come in three steps instead of at a bound. The three steps might be: 1) Civilian administration by the U. S.; 2) "Philippine Free State" with a U. S. High Commissioner; 3) Independence...
...favorite poems as it was Mr. Deb's. But Mr. Berger is a practical captain of his soul, an editor, an essayist, a politician but not a crusader. He refused to cruise abroad on Henry Ford's "Peace Ship." He opposes the League of Nations. He was content in 1924 to see the Socialist Party merge its energies with the energies of the Farmer-Laborites, the American Federation of Labor and other bodies at the Conference for Progressive Political Action, which backed his fellow Wisconsinite, the late Robert M. LaFollette. With not even a LaFollette in sight, Mr. Berger will...
...content with waging a ruthless "battle of wheat" (TIME, Oct. 24), Premier Benito Mussolini ordered a "national rice day" for Nov. 1. Apparently, on that day all good Italians must live like Chinese-on rice. For the edification of the spaghetti-eating populace, Il Duce explained that rice day was in reality a supporting attack in the "battle of wheat," which is being fought to make Italy a cereally self-sufficient country, by reducing the imports of that grain. Rice, he went on, can be raised in Italy on large tracts of land now available...
...fire or listening to the rumble of boilers in which cold water churns upward to dribble languidly out of faucets marked "hot." Their reading is confined to yesterday's newspapers; sleepy, happy woodchucks, they do not care to see their own names on the front pages. They are content...
After this, the faculty members, full of conviviality, sang "Auld Lang Syne." Their voices, Michael Bonney considered, were rather bad. But he said nothing. A humble man, he stood gently smiling around at his friends. He was content...