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Word: quarreling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repertory company. She is fired when Mrs. Rice-Pilkington's gigolo makes eyes at her; then she goes to London, tries to get another engagement, loses her good name to get the railway fare home because she thinks her mother is dying. Her mother is well enough to quarrel with her. and Joy goes back to London. gets a job as companion to an old lady in a private asylum. There she does not know how to defend herself from the doctor, is fired again, meets her gigolo, whom she has thought of day and night, and is happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Joy Unconfined | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...House of Representatives censored, almost expelled, onetime Congressman Thomas Lindsay Blanton of Texas for inserting in the Congressional Record an affidavit detailing a profane quarrel between employes at the Government printing office. Senate newsmen waited to see if anything like that would happen to Senator Blease for his quotations, which he did not edit out of the Congressional Record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Blease on Blasphemy | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

Standard of Indiana, largest refiner in the world, arena of the famed Rockefeller-Stewart quarrel (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cherished Memory | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...Post-Gazette quarrel was settled by compromise last week. To discipline the recalcitrant Press, the storekeepers considered publishing their own Shopping News. But merchants know that such a paper, now found upon the doormats of Washington, Cleveland and other cities, makes dull reading for housewives, is frequently hurled into the ash can by husbands. And the Press, last week, still refused to budge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Advertising Strike | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...talented and ambitious; she writes magazine articles; soon she is making more money than Toby. He returns to drink, she pays the bills, they quarrel. Finally they separate: she to Hollywood on assignment, he to Florida to cover a baseball training camp. One day he gets a long-distance call from Manhattan: Ann, returned to the city, has been poisoned by some whiskey Toby bought while drunk in a strange speakeasy and left behind in the apartment by mistake. As Ann slowly recovers, Toby gets to work in earnest, sells some stories, writes a novel. The outcome, in suspense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Newspaper Wife | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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