Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leaders Quarrel. What made the mouse-squeak truly terrifying to Elephant MacDonald was a quarrel he had had earlier in the week with David Lloyd George. The bantamweight Liberal leader controls the greater part of a batch of votes on which the life of the Cabinet depends.* He demanded that Mr. MacDonald put through a bill giving the Liberal Party representation in parliament proportional to the number of Liberal votes at the next election.? Scot MacDonald said no to the Welshman. Mr. Lloyd George threatened his worst. At just this moment the mouse squeaked...
...startling figure. Heretofore 15 has been the maximum number of Labor rebel votes cast against Mr. MacDonald. Mouse Mosley's squeak nearly doubled, last week, the intraparty opposition to Scot MacDonald. If the Prime Minister and Mr. Lloyd George had continued their quarrel, the 29 votes would have been enough to more than wreck the Cabinet, but rumors flew that the Liberal leader?changeable as a weathercock? had veered around again to Mr. MacDonald's aid, possibly seduced by some secret political trade unrevealed last week...
...near future. It is only fair to Army's opponents to do so. Such a change will not only remove an unethical principle from football and keep the Army on good terms with all the universities, but it would also remove the bone of contention from the Army-Navy quarrel and make the resumption of relations between the two service institutions the natural outcome...
Though sound enough in a business way, the Principality of Monaco was racked again last week by political strife, surprising in view of the fact that last fall the Prince of Monaco's smart daughter Charlotte was announced to have settled His Highness' quarrel with certain political factions...
...theatre, thus somehow terminating the legal proceedings. Last act is a flashback to Room No. 349, a scene in which Mr. Stromberg is portrayed as being wise, powerful, philanthropic, tender. His short temper, his desire to "quit the racket" and marry Babette are given as reasons for the quarrel and the shooting. But the shooting occurs in the dark, just where audiences were left, along with the New York Police Department, after the actual Rothstein killing...