Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...multitude of letters telling him how to conduct his life. The effect of this legacy becomes apparent when he takes a bride. So completely impersonal is he toward her that it begins to seem as if he had never been apprised of a husband's obligations. There is a quarrel, but several shots of Scotch suffice to break the mother-fixation and the play ends with enlightenment in the offing. There is a great deal to be said for the humorous treatment of modern psychology. But here the humor is not half so subtle as the pathological dilemma used...
...letter printed elsewhere on this page puts forth a case for maintaining a forum where undergraduates may discuss current political, sociological, and economic problems. There can be little quarrel with the main argument of the correspondent, that there would be value in a communal meeting point at Harvard for all students with more than a passive interest in current events and their underlying causes and ultimate effects...
Once more a mere citizen, after six years as Dictator, he visibly recovered all the bubbling jollity he has lacked of late (TIME, Jan. 20). "Don't quarrel over these, boys!" he cried with a rumbling laugh as he handed out two copies of the statement announcing his Cabinet's fall to more than 50 clamoring correspondents...
...pleased to call as my successor the Chief of his Military Household, Lieut. General Don Damaso Berenguer y Fuste, Duke of Xauen ... a man of great serenity of judgment, possessed of much discretion and dearly beloved. . . .-* I am highly pleased . . . chance to calm my nerves and rest. . . . Don't quarrel over these boys! . . . How pretty you are my dear. . . . Charming, charming...
...question arises as to the reason for its existence. Certainly one of the most important causes, if not the important; is to afford the faculty an opportunity to do more research work, and then under the rule of cause and effect, to publish the findings. It is difficult to quarrel with the proposition of whether the university of reputation exists for its students or for its teachers...