Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French play of one act in which two old fathers conspire to marry the daughter of one to the son of the other. The key line is classic, "Marriage without obstacles isn't tempting to two such young simpletons." So the fathers fight, the children refuse to accept the feud as final separation, and Romeo-and-Juliet-like they defy the quarrel. The young lady is being abducted, her lover saves her. The fathers relent. All is forgiven. Curtain...
Before the Amiral Pierre sailed from Marseilles for Reunion, Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim faced newsgatherers stoically and told in smoldering purring Spanish† the story of his feud with Spain...
...embers of a generation-old Spanish feud kindled again last week. Wicked darting flames of revolution spurted high at Barcelona, industrial tinder box of Catalonian unrest. Upon the city and all Spain Dictator-Premier Primo de Rivera clapped his oldfashioned, iron extinguisher of smothering censorship. With all commercial telegraph and telephone lines completely silent throughout Spain, voluminous clouds of rumor billowed with the awesome menace of uncertain portent...
...Asquith* strove?then as now?to curb what he deemed the too great liberality of Liberals. For a time the Asquithians saw their leader supreme, within the party and the Government, as Prime Minister (1908-16). Then Lloyd George wrested the Premiership for himself (1916-22), and the Liberal feud began in earnest. Latterly this once great party has declined to political insignificance. Last week Asquithians and Georgians vociferated over an issue of molehill stature which they erected into a Liberal mountain...
...sectional feud is an old one. It was first brought to a head in 1923 when Paddock, the California spriner, delying a regulation of the A.A.U., competed abroad with the backing of the newly formed National Collegiate Association. Horrified by such disrespect, the A. A. U. promptly suspended the offending athlete for professionalism. When it became evident, however, that the A. A. U. would supervise the approaching Olympic tryouts, Paddock apologized and was reinstated a significant commentary on the sincerity of the "Professional" charge. Since then warfare has been less open, but periodic suspensions for offences ordinarily connived at, have...