Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither I nor any other veteran of the First World War can quarrel honorably with the Colonel's sincere pacifism. But his choice of a simile, "We must be as impersonal as a surgeon with his knife," seems to me singularly unhappy. It is an insult to the medical profession...
...short & snappy French Army communiques are now published beside the much longer German reports. Cinemaudiences are warned to refrain from applauding the armies of either side as they appear on the screen and the entire Italian public has been counseled not to show partisanship in Europe's big quarrel...
...England's last two guesses are completely wrong. In the first place, this is a foreign, not a domestic quarrel for the German people, and they will rally together to prevent a second Versailles. And secondly, the nation has the same amount of food it always has had, but Nazi officials have been rationing it for years and storing it in large cold storage plants...
Shall or May. Like all political fights, this one could be minimized into a quarrel over terms-in this case a grammarian's choice: the word "may" or the word "shall." Vandenberg helped draft the arms embargo clause for the Neutrality Act; in it he insisted that when a state of war was found to exist, the President "shall proclaim" an embargo on sales of arms to belligerents...
Last week as the curtain came down on the Republic of Poland, the quarrel of Colonel Beck and Marshal Smigly-Rydz on a railway platform in Rumania might well have opened its final scene. Three weeks before, they had been the responsible rulers of one of Europe's major powers- its sixth in population and area. Proud men, independent and successful, they had reason to be proud. Philosophical Smigly-Rydz, shy and softspoken, had built Poland's Army until it included 1,500,000 trained reserves; deft Josef Beck, untroubled by accusations of lack of scruples, had maneuvered...