Word: quarreling
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...woodwind music which was restive, foreboding. A haggish old woman interrupts, one who knows the secrets of Nature, of Spring. The adolescents whom she comes to enlighten are still of undetermined sex. They mix happily, spontaneously, but Spring is the season for fertility, for recreation. The groups seperate, quarrel, play self-consciously for the first time. A sage appears, the eldest the clan. Face down he asks the bless of the earth and new energy comes seizes the adolescents, sets them to a surging crescendo of relent tom-tom rhythms...
...While the Oesterreichs lived in Milwaukee, Walter Klein inhabited a secret room in their house, unknown to Fred Oesterreich. When they moved to Los Angeles, another secret room, like the first, was constructed for Walburga Oesterreich's vagabond halfbrother. Herman Shapiro said that Klein had admitted overhearing a quarrel between the Oester-reichs, creeping out of his secret room, shooting Fred Oesterreich, pushing Walburga Oesterreich into a closet, locking the door from the outside...
...Sever Hall, or climbed the stairs to his bachelor's sanctum in Hollis, and the hordes who poured into the Union whenever it was announced that "Copey" would read knew better than the faculty. They knew that "Copey" was one of the supreme teachers of their generation. Men may quarrel over the explanation, but they agree upon the fact...
History may add a line to this quarrel, a line setting forth that Atheist Clémenceau and Catholic Foch kept their differences from exploding at the time, won together the victory of world's greatest grandeur...
...Duchess of Leinster, onetime chorus girl, wife of the Premier Duke, Marquess and Earl of Ireland, was taken from a London flat to a hospital, suffering from asphyxiation, following a quarrel with one Stanley Williams, once a cook, with whom she had been living. Since 1923 His Grace has been separated from Her Grace...