Word: fractiousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pastor John Roach Straton hastened to write out a 5,000-word apologia pro sua vita. There was no Pentecostalism rife in Calvary Bapist Church; the woman of Lindbergh Monday was a victim of the general Manhattan hysteria or was ill; the five deacons were fractious and had better have resigned; they were "making a grandstand play for publicity." He concluded: "In closing I wish to say that I was duly elected as the engineer of this Gospel train here at Calvary Baptist Church. And throughout the ten years of my leadership the overwhelming majority of the officers...
That to engage a motor vehicle for longer than an hour, or proceed in one more than five miles from Oxford, or fly in an airplane, was fractious...
...stories was about a fractious Chinaboy who invented printing, by accident, through getting jam on his father's carvings. Another was of the sea-dwelling Shen (demons) who inundated a great city to expand their province but were later outwitted by the wisest of kings. There was Weng Fu, the wit-wandering beggar who sold himself as a father to an orphan boy in the Street of Wang's Broken Tea Cup near the Seven Thieves Market, and "that lazy Ah Fun" who blew up his honorable father with the bed-stove, broooomp! All these things and many...
Premier Poincaré tightened the tough girth of his new "Sacred Union Cabinet" (TIME, August 2) on the Chamber last week and spurred that fractious mettlesome assembly over more high hurdles of distasteful legislation than it has taken in a twelvemonth...
...passing tourist were observing the fauna about the farmstead of Dr. W. E. Hastings near Mt. Vernon, Ind., he would be aghast. On that pleasant heath graze, plow, cavort, eight zebroids, heavily boned and muscled as their percheron dams, fractious and dainty-footed as their wild zebra sire...