Word: feuds
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...readers in its account of the months before relations be tween the U. S. and Germany were broken. Up to that time Bernstorff's career was unexciting. Born of an old diplomatic family in 1862, Bernstorff had been an in different student, apparently without goading ambitions, when a feud between his family and the Bismarcks seemingly put an end to any diplomatic aspirations he might have held. Bernstorff's older brother had been recalled from Washington be cause he "showed more interest in the Y. M. C. A. than in politics." Johann Bernstorff spent eight years...
...from San Francisco to New York and on to Europe. It came to dominate the game of tennis as the rivalry between Mary of Scotland and Elizabeth of England once dominated British politics. Because, to the protagonists, it was no less serious, reporters mistook it for a mere personal feud, based on the fact that the Willses were more socialite than the Jacobses...
Loudest and most lasting of all political feuds in the last half of the 19th Century was that between Republicans James Gillespie ("The Man from Maine") Elaine and New York's dandified, witty Roscoe Conkling. It started in 1866 when Representative Elaine accused Representative Conkling of having unfairly edited his remarks in the Congressional Globe, forerunner of the Congressional Record. It continued unabated when both graduated from the House to the Senate. It became nationally significant with the formation of Conkling's clique known as the "Stalwarts" which bitterly opposed every move of Elaine's following...
...Crown, regard it as a Protestant bulwark protecting them from their Catholic enemies in the Free State. First with astonishment, then with fury, Belfast Orangemen read a recent prognostication in Reynolds Illustrated News of London that the new King-Emperor may assert himself by trying to end the feud which divides his Irish subjects and bring the whole island under one Government. If His Majesty had any such ideas the Orangemen had no use for him, and up in Belfast they promptly raised a huge portrait of Edward VIII captioned "DOWN WITH THE FENIAN KING...
Because her work as a designer of women's underclothes takes all her time, Tennist Helen Wills Moody announced that she would not play in the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills, L. I. next month. Thus she avoided another battle in her feud with Tennist Helen Hull Jacobs. Said Mrs. Moody: "I am not giving up tennis. But in the future I shall play only in tournaments that fit in well with my work." Up for auction in Denver came the last tawdry possessions of Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby") Doe Tabor, who was frozen to death last year...