Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also as difficult to quarrel with the whole or any portion of Mr. Bacon's speech. However, the words of the Pennsylvania coal miner who sent his son to college at considerable sacrifice so that the latter might be able in after-life to "look any man in the face and tell him to go to Hell", perhaps present a sounder philosophy of life than the noted speaker makes them out to hold in his anecdote. Mr. Bacon's objections to this code are rightly chosen insofar as the man might have meant opposition to the society of which...
These words might also be, in the phraseology of the modern philologists, the renewing quarrel, between humanism and humanitarism, with both "isms" and their recurrent bickerings conspicuously lacking. They represent a system of philosophy which differs from the beliefs of Main Street, and which includes the strength of character to tell the latter so in no uncertain terms. It is indeed a more than pleasant feeling at times to be able sincerely and safely to "look every man in the face and tell him to go to Hell...
...Bates), who is trying to be a dancer, his numerous and very funny friends thwart the accomplishment of any worthy project. So Steve and Anne get married. She goes to dance in a cinemansion while he stays home, keeps house, writes the book. This scheme proves faulty, and they quarrel and separate; she neglects to tell him they are about to have issue. Meeting again-after Steve has become successful-to plan a divorce, they become reconciled...
...after him for nonpayment of taxes. He charged he was being persecuted by the Republican Administration in Washington because the Republican Administration in New Jersey could "get nothing on him." Last week the able Newark News ferreted out a Washington report that Mayor Hague had settled his fiscal quarrel with the Treasury by payment of $60,000. It was further gathered that the payment had been made not by Mayor Hague himself but by Theodore M. Brandle, Jersey City's building tsar. Because tax matters are secret by law, Treasury officials could not and Mayor Hague would not confirm...
...dies. She remains faithful to his memory and reveres him as if he had been a saint. But if he had recovered, she would never have forgiven him. Second part: Fernand Cazenave, cousin of Jean Pelouéyre, has been his widowed mother's darling from infancy. They quarrel, however, almost continuously. The mother is a frightful old woman, whose one fear is that her son will marry and thus get away from her. Eventually, a middle-aged man, he does marry, but his wife, already slightly acidified from prolonged spinsterhood, is at first not quite docile enough...