Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exact opposite of most presidents who quarrel with their trustees, hard-fisted Tyler Dennett claimed they were wasting money. When Alumnus Dennett ('04) went back to Williams three years ago from a professorship at Princeton's School of Public & International Affairs to succeed President Harry Augustus Garfield, son of the 20th President of the U. S., he was shocked to find that his small, patrician college was piling up steady deficits. President Dennett installed a budget system, launched a money-raising program for Williams' library, laboratories, teachers' salaries, scholarships. But he found 73-year-old Senior...
...opening stages the Japanese-Russian quarrel was based on flatly contradictory statements by Tokyo and Moscow about something alleged to have occurred on the murky Amur River, which for much of its length forms the frontier between Soviet Siberia and Japan's puppet empire of Manchukuo (see map). Ambassador Shigemitsu was instructed to say that Japanese and Manchukuoan soldiers, while peacefully swimming in the Amur, had been fired upon by a Soviet gunboat, soon sunk by the avenging fire of their shore batteries. To this Commissar Litvinoff replied that a Japanese-Manchukuoan gunboat had opened fire on a Soviet...
They did not meet again till Irina was famous and Ivan a hunted revolutionary. And they met only to quarrel. Then the Revolution broke and the tables turned. Now Ivan was a power and Irina a nobody, endangered. He saved her life but could not or would not keep her from prison. After an ingenious jail delivery engineered by her friends, when she was nearly at the Finnish border and safety, the two lovers met again. Whether neither or both or one crossed the border is a secret any adventure author would prefer readers to discover for themselves...
...feelings. "The Theatre," said Maxwell Anderson, shaggy, amiable and prolific poetic dramatist, "has lived by its wits during most of its history. It will continue to live by its wits and to be the most important American art. . . . Governments tax it, scalpers scalp it, unions hold it up, dramatists quarrel with producers, moving pictures devour its children as fast as they appear-and still our theatre is the centre of civilization in New York and in the United States and quite amazingly, the foremost theatre of the world...
...left hip and both legs. Columnist Corum said he had been hit by a stray bullet while walking along Madison Avenue. When police continued to question him, it came out that he had been with Ruth Lamar (divorced wife of Banker Robert Lehman) at the Stork Club, where a quarrel with Lawford started, that he had taken Miss Lamar to her Park Avenue apartment, where Lawford shot him. Wrote Corum in his column: "Your correspondent always has been inclined to have too much lead in the wrong places...