Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar New Deal attack on Business last week precipitated a quarrel over a familiar New Deal paradox. The attack: FTC told the Monopoly Committee that the basing-point price system makes the steel industry "a focal centre of monopolistic infection which, if not eradicated, miy well cause the death of free capitalistic industry in the U. S." The paradox: The Administration's dual attitude toward Business-olive branch in one hand, big stick in the other...
...There definitely is no quarrel between pro and amateur tennis," Perry continued. "On the contrary, if we are permitted to continue as we have been there will be a large increase in the amount of tennis played in this country...
...designer named Norman Dine announced that he had polled 500 wives, found that three out of four preferred double beds to twin beds. Reasons: sleeping with someone is "restful and reassuring"; "It is difficult to continue a quarrel in a double...
...sleep in the dining room; the disaster caused when a maid-of-all-work leaves in the midst of a dinner party; the results of John Mason's request for a raise; difficulties between Jane and her mother-in-law; a New Year's Eve quarrel between John and Jane. The climax, such as it is, arrives when their infant son wrinkles his face with boredom and refuses to say Daddy. At this point John and Jane Mason have ceased to be merely important and become two of the most memorable personages who have ever come to life...
...Wedding is just the wedding. Jennie Middleton of Lexington on the Santee River is going to marry Dr. Gregg, a newcomer to the sleepy Southern town which is becoming an industrial centre without the old inhabitants knowing it. The time is 1909. The night before the ceremony they quarrel; Jennie says she won't marry a man who has sworn at her; mother, father and the doctor's friend act as peacemakers; the Confederate veterans assemble to take part in the ceremony; the minister refuses to have Confederate flags in the church; the groom begins to drink; when...