Word: quarrelers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan a campaign, arrange a compromise if one is necessary, and muster the votes when the skies are stormy. As long ago as 1899 one can find him praised by the Topeka Mail and Breeze as a past master at the art of settling a dispute without an open quarrel. In that capacity he has been of inestimable service to successive Administrations. For he has what William Allen White calls "a blessed gift as a hand-shaker" and "the indefinable thing called charm which binds men to one another forever." "Add to that," writes White, "a gentle, ingratiating voice...
...curious twist to the usual older-younger generation quarrel reveals itself here. The present upper-classmen apparently form the party of the right in the controversy on smoking; and they, in no uncertain terms, reprimanded the alumnae whose visits to college are signaled by clouds of smoke hovering around the sorority houses. The conservative Juniors and Seniors complained, too, that the alumnae give incoming students a false impression, and lead the young to over-indulgence in the vice of tobacco. They cited evidence to show that college women are losing their health because of smoking. No doubt they gave graphic...
...said to order on the inane. For it, covers all bellicose situations except "as such disputes related to the Monroe Doctrine, France's obligations under the covenant of the League of Nations, domestic questions, . . . or questions affecting a third party." It is hard to imagine a quarrel in which one of these clauses could not be invoked. But it there is one, it is the rankling question of debt settlement; and this treaty is obviously intended to allay the fear of the French that the United States might attempt elsewhere the militant methods of debt collection that she has found...
...feelings of the average fed-up layman are approximately the same as his attitude toward Sandino and Diaz and their little quarrel. He rather hopes it will be a "dog eat dog" fight. There is no good reason why one should not decorate his billet doux and otherwise to his heart's content providing the posters bear no improper sentiments. And of course there is no good reason why he should, especially if the Postal authorities object. However, much as one may dislike propaganda of any sort plastered over his private correspondence, the line here seems to be rather arbitrarily...
French Dressing, no matter how generously poured over Lois Wilson and H. B. Warner, should have at least a dash of the sharp subtlety of vinegar. Lacking this the other ingredients, though orthodox and not unpalatable, become somewhat spiritless. In this case they are a marital quarrel, a soupçon of extra-marital jealousy, a sudden but not surprising beautification of the wife, and, a bad last, the reconciliation which leaves her in charge of a quiescent situation...