Word: quarreling
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More than one opposition Senator suspected that President Roosevelt had tossed the St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty into the Senate at this time to give that august debating society something innocuous to quarrel over and thus keep itself out of serious mischief while waiting for the House to whip through the President's domestic program. Most of last week, therefore, the Senate was kept busy talking about this pact with Canada. The substance of the debate was inferior to its manner. Most politely vociferous opponent of the treaty was Illinois' aging, asthmatic Senator James Hamilton Lewis, who wore...
...again, sees that her marriage is a failure. Lloyd has become an impotent neurotic while Elinor has fallen in love with a handsome English remittance man named Blair. Elinor, Lloyd and Blair go West, set up a ménage à trois on a Montana ranch. In the inevitable quarrel Blair kills Lloyd but makes it look like an accident. When Elinor finally realizes, after months of living together, that Blair has no intention of marrying her, she shoots him. A wide-open Western jury acquits her and her warm-hearted authoress marries her off to long-suffering Carroll...
...have him even after he is a widower. In spite of his unexplained departure and long silence, in spite of the series of anonymous letters telling what kind of man he is, she still believes in her beloved Lucius, whom she sends away angry after a lover's quarrel, one moonlit night...
...many and diverse. There are some who oppose them on philosophical grounds, who object to the fact that a jingo spirit is kept in strength and energy by the intrusion of professional soldiers into college classrooms. This view they have supported with great insight and appropriate vigour, but its quarrel with the present is so fundamental that their efforts have not met with much success. There is, however, no necessity to confine the attack on military and naval science to these grounds. Two other arguments have been presented; no answer to either of them has been advanced. Harvard College...
...Georgia, CWA was put in charge of Miss Gay Shepperson, fortyish, professional social worker. This resulted from a thoroughgoing quarrel between blatant dictatorish Governor Talmadge and President Roosevelt's quiet stubborn CWAdministrator Hopkins. In the course of the quarrel, these words flew...