Word: quarrelers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole "incompatibility of temperament" thus resolved into a quarrel about what size and number of ships should be allotted to each nation within the agreed tonnage...
...constitutionally impossible for a Parrish to be really lugubrious. Innumerable small pranks and whimsies set off the pall of Gray Sheep, softening the glare of its irony, warming it with humanity. The morning of Helen (Mrs.) Rain's funeral, the eaves sparrows quarrel as usual. (She would have liked that.) At John Rain's embarkation, the tugs whisper fuchsia, fuchsia, fuchsia; then cough cocoa, cocoa, cocoa as they push the ship to midstream. During a prayer at sewing circle, Helen Rain peeps covertly at the Women's varying technique-pinching bridge of nose; clasping stomach; kneeling thoroughly...
...Pastor John Roach Straton of Calvary Baptist Church and his son Warren Badenock Straton, 19, into the lake of metropolitan publicity last week. Their excuse for the "hazing" was Son Warren Badenock's recent epileptiform "baptism by fire of the Holy Spirit" and Father John Roach's quarrel with five of his deacons a fortnight ago (TIME, July 4). The newspapers were "following up" these "stories." It was incumbent upon the Stratons to swim or sink...
...Salisbury, Md., six weeks ago one Mrs. Mary Hearn, for 18 years Farmer Samuel Russell's housekeeper, burned down his house after a quarrel. Since then she has been in jail, waiting trial for arson. Last week Farmer Russell, feeling remorse for having made her angry enough to want to burn him to death, went to jail, where he married her. Other prisoners threw beans at the hugging couple...
Certainly, one can quarrel with the decisions. One might say, among other things, that the judges this year were reluctant to stray from the fields of conservatism. On the whole, however, virtue has earned its own reward. Practically the sole divisions of the Pulitzer selections which the average citizen is in any way capable of judging are those of the drama, the novel, and possibly that of the newspaper editorial. In "Abraham's Bosom" the jury has elected a thoughtful and sincere play; in "Early Autumn" a restrained and carefully finished piece of fiction; and in "The Herald Commends...