Word: quarrelers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just sick of it all myself. . . . Today I got a letter from a woman in England. Even over there I'm known as a gorilla.† She offered to pay my passage to England if I'd kill some neighbors she's been having a quarrel with. . . . "I wish all my friends and enemies a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. That's all they'll get from me this year. I hope I don't spoil anybody's Christmas by not sticking around...
...attempting his major task of providing Christmas amusement for us, the editor has rightly refrained from oversubtlety. It may seem to some that he might have allowed himself just a shade more licence in this respect. But the writer at least will not quarrel with him. With admirable good nature he has attempted to be all things to all men. The Puritan is given, in the ballad of Sir Brazen-pants, a story with a moral; the classical scholar cannot fall to derive satisfaction from the Christmas Version of "Times Danaos": while all must be stimulated by an entirely...
...country on the Council. Even stolid Swiss were appalled at the possibility that Premiers Pilsudski and Valdemaras, both choleric characters, might meet like colliding comets in the musty League Secretariat building. Meanwhile many a U. S. citizen asked: "What's the trouble between Lithuania and Poland?" Perennial Quarrel. Poland and Lithuania are both states which carved themselves out from the onetime Russian Empire, when it fell; and their quarrels arise from the fact that each has persisted in a militant desire to continue carving and to wrest from the other certain provinces...
Admiral Magruder's quarrel with the Secretary of the Navy brings to the public mind the similar difficulties of General Mitchell with the War Department. Both were crusaders for reform; both, by appealing their cases to the public, aroused the ire of their superiors; but there the resemblance ends. Mitchell advocated larger expenditures, and accused the Government of stinting the allowance for an adequate air delense: Magruder is on the side of economy, and accuses the authorities of inefficient use of the funds appropriated...
...caveman in politics, with the caveman's virility, with the caveman's courage, with the caveman's violence and with the caveman's complete incapacity to realize that he might be wrong. For Senator Reed every argument is a quarrel, every quarrel is a fight, every fight is a massacre...