Word: quarreling
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...fear of what Mr. Dies might do to him hung over redoubtable Captain Ortman. From Chicago, he enjoys his $2,700-a-year job and smart blue uniform as patronage from Illinois' old Senator J. Ham Lewis. Besides, he explained, his chief quarrel was not with Representative Dies & committee but with veterans and their organizations. Said Veteran Ortman: "They're beginning to think the country is permeated with "isms" when . . . the American public is 99 44/100% pure...
...sleep in the dining room; the disaster caused when a maid-of-all-work leaves in the midst of a dinner party; the results of John Mason's request for a raise; difficulties between Jane and her mother-in-law; a New Year's Eve quarrel between John and Jane. The climax, such as it is, arrives when their infant son wrinkles his face with boredom and refuses to say Daddy. At this point John and Jane Mason have ceased to be merely important and become two of the most memorable personages who have ever come to life...
...Wedding is just the wedding. Jennie Middleton of Lexington on the Santee River is going to marry Dr. Gregg, a newcomer to the sleepy Southern town which is becoming an industrial centre without the old inhabitants knowing it. The time is 1909. The night before the ceremony they quarrel; Jennie says she won't marry a man who has sworn at her; mother, father and the doctor's friend act as peacemakers; the Confederate veterans assemble to take part in the ceremony; the minister refuses to have Confederate flags in the church; the groom begins to drink; when...
...what is going to happen. They know that the Judge will become heavily involved in a deal and nearly lose everything; that Marion will fall in love with the wrong man, and have quite a time until her exasperatingly benevolent father straightens things out; that Andy and Becky will quarrel and then make up with one of those wonderful cave-man kisses. Realizing that the audience is familiar with the formula they are using, MGM should have introduced some new ideas, if such phenomena exist in California. Instead, the hackneyed plot has been made even more important--and even more...
...Churchill has long been overtly critical of the Prime Minister. Mr. Eden has been cautiously critical, on occasion abstaining rather than voting against Mr. Chamberlain. Lord Baldwin's opposition has been determined but never in the open. He and other anti-Chamberlain Conservatives realize that an open quarrel would split the party, pave the way for a return of the Laborites to power. They foresee the possibility of keeping Mr. Chamberlain in office but surrounding him with such an anti-Fascist Cabinet of "national unity" that he would no longer be free to appease dictators. Significantly, Chairman Sandys squelched...