Word: quarrelers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapers had given no clear reflection of his stand because in different cities different stands are needed to please different groups of readers. Mr. Hearst used to be a Democrat. But ever since he was publicly tongue-lashed by Alfred Emanuel Smith in their celebrated quarrel of 1919, et seq., the G. O. P. has grown in Hearst favor. Before the nominating conventions this year, the Hearst press boomed Secretary Mellon for President and Prosperity. When Mayor Walker of New York City visited the Hearst ranch after the Democratic convention, people said he went to make overtures; to persuade...
...summer people are outdoors, have free opportunity to quarrel; commit acts of violence. In winter living becomes difficult; people steal and commit other acts against property...
Above 85° F. people become too lethargic to quarrel...
...country is like a woman," he gruffed. "A respectable woman is uninteresting. So is a country which minds its own business, pays its debts, and doesn't quarrel with its neighbors...
...must remember, my dear Governor, that the fire of that 'record' under the red-hot grid you are dancing on is of your own kindling, and your quarrel is really with your own 'record' and not with those of us who, for the sake of the Republic we love, have dared to warn the people about it as an indication of the type of President we may expect if you should by any unhappy chance be sent to the White House...