Word: quarreling
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...compromise worked as well as Washington hoped last week, men might soon have trouble saying exactly what the fight was even about. In retrospect, it may turn out to have been a quarrel over semantics...
...result, obviously, was impeccable musicianship. You could quarrel with Mildred's vocals on the grounds that you didn't like singers or that her voice wasn't as rich as Bessie Smith's, but if you had any feeling for jazz you couldn't quarrel with the music she produced...
...sing in Washington's Constitution Hall got an acceptance with provisos: that there be no audience segregation, that she be allowed to sing there again sometime. So the D.A.R.ters withdrew the invitation. Then Marian Anderson accepted anyway. But Sol Hurok, her publicity-wise manager, would not let the quarrel lapse. Said he: "Since the executive committee has not referred in its letter to the matter of segregation . . . Miss Anderson understands that this is no barrier...
Magic, which devout Catholic Chesterton wrote in 1913, preaches religious faith through tricky supernaturalism. A conjurer's magic confounds, and in one case deranges, a roomful of skeptics-worldly priest, agnostic doctor, materialistic U.S. businessman. There are some witty lines, including the famous "I hate a quarrel because it always interrupts an argument." But the play dies on its feet, having talked itself to death...
Miss Mitchell has no quarrel with the British people, having more than a touch of their own spunk herself, but she cringes at the pious hypocrisy and old-school stupidity which British rule has clamped over India for 150 years. To her, the British Raj hasn't changed since Kipling left the Punjab. To the Raj, India is still the cornerstone of the Empire and must be held at all costs. The timeworn clichés with which excesses and failings have been shrouded Miss Mitchell attacks with a Bryn-Mawrian vigor implemented with the background of nine years...