Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Guy Bates Post (Adele Ritchie), 55, oldtime (1893-1918) musical comedy actress (Floradora), onetime wife of Actor Guy Bates Post; and her friend and hostess, Mrs. Doris Murray Palmer, 32; in a double shooting; at Laguna Beach, Calif. Police thought Mrs. Post shot Mrs. Palmer after a quarrel, then spent two hours shopping, trying to calm herself before she returned to the scene of murder, shot herself...
...over it. When she married Cope Harlan, penniless professor of economics, her family disapproved but had to give in; soon it was Cope who was giving in. Cope was an agnostic; his skepticism quickly ran foul of Hilda's belief in her divine rightness. Their first serious quarrel arose over the baptism of their infant daughter; Cope refused to admit she was "conceived in sin," objected to the promises her baptismal sponsors would have to make, their own hypocrisy in making them. Finally Hilda forced him to a separation. He went abroad, made a name for himself...
...Lampoon, which did much toward causing the breach in relations almost four years ago, should be the first to make an attempt to patch them up again. The CRIMSON, Harvard's daily, expresses the opinion that undergraduate feeling is more than cordial towards Princeton and hope that soon the quarrel can be settled...
...While the Oesterreichs lived in Milwaukee, Walter Klein inhabited a secret room in their house, unknown to Fred Oesterreich. When they moved to Los Angeles, another secret room, like the first, was constructed for Walburga Oesterreich's vagabond halfbrother. Herman Shapiro said that Klein had admitted overhearing a quarrel between the Oester-reichs, creeping out of his secret room, shooting Fred Oesterreich, pushing Walburga Oesterreich into a closet, locking the door from the outside...
...Sever Hall, or climbed the stairs to his bachelor's sanctum in Hollis, and the hordes who poured into the Union whenever it was announced that "Copey" would read knew better than the faculty. They knew that "Copey" was one of the supreme teachers of their generation. Men may quarrel over the explanation, but they agree upon the fact...