Word: quarrelers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bearings firmly taken, Correspondent James proceeded to shed light on the recent acrimonious exchange of speeches between Pope Pius XI and Il Duce, as to whether the Church or State shall predominate in educating Italian Youth. Mr. James significantly revealed that in the course of smoothing down this quarrel, Signor Mussolini has agreed that the Fascist Youth organizations shall hereafter receive spiritual training under the auspices of the Church, while all other instruction shall continue lay and Fascist...
...doing, and every one knows with whom. There is the agitated little Mr. Lee-Mittison, pathetically chipper when he has organized a picnic, but dashed to nervous gloom when it disintegrates to eggshells and a mackintoshed wife. There is the inevitable pair of spinsters, who paint wretched watercolors, and quarrel over Hedonism. There are plenty of charming young girls, and no eligible young men. Finally there is Sydney Warren, a lovely girl of 22, sophisticated, neurotic, who provides the hotel with faintly perverted gossip because of her infatuation for a charming widow, Mrs. Kerr. Sydney tries to escape the pity...
Thus, Editor Count Dalla Torre is both a loyal Son of the Church and a businessman of the world. As such he signed his authoritative initials, last week, to a leading article in L'Osservatore Romano which purported to explode the theory of a quarrel between Pope and Duce as follows...
...Supreme Pontiff & Vicar of Christ must not, does not and cannot lower himself sufficiently to become one of two persons who are quarreling. The truth of this statement became luminous, last week, as discussion waxed hot in Italy upon the recent and contradictory speeches of Pope Pius XI and Prime Minister Mussolini-speeches which had seemed to place them on opposite sides of a dispute as to whether the education of Italian youths shall be purely secular and Fascist, or partially religious and Roman Catholic (TIME, April 9). Round 1 of the apparent quarrel had ended when Il Duce backed...
...TIME, March 12), to realize that Kit was a devil incarnate in an Indian fight. Fremont, generous, press-agented the unassuming Kit, who helped him capture territory from the Mexicans and make California a part of the U. S. As a lieutenant, Kit took part in Fremont's quarrel with General Kearney in the California conquest. The U. S. Government was unwilling to confirm Kit's commission; and thus his two years' service to his country under Fremont went unpaid and unrecognized. Kit regarded the Army as an unmixed curse to the country. Kit was never intrigued...