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...role; her admirers bewail the fact that she never played Rosalind for whom her sharp features, her grace and gaiety and the instinctive good taste of her acting would so well have fitted her. Her association with Irving-with whom she played from 1878 to 1902-terminated in a quarrel which was never completely explained. Soon after they parted company, Terry became a grandmother and Bernard Shaw remarked: "When her son, Gordon Craig, became a father,*she said that no one would ever write plays for a grandmother. I immediately wrote Captain Brassbound's Conversion to prove the contrary...
...Quarrel. As everyone knows the quarrel of the Holy See with President Calles has resulted from his enforcement of anti-religious clauses in the Mexican Constitution which were not enforced during the last presidency (1920-24) of General Obregon or previously. The core of the quarrel is President Calles' enforcement decree of July 19, 1926, authorizing the police to prevent priests from officiating until they register with the Mexican authorities. Straightway this decree was stigmatized by the Mexican Episcopate as an implied setting of the State above the Pope, and all Roman Catholic priests have refused to be registered...
...Valentino and made to register Arabian passion under the erogenous name of Prince Fazil. The also warm Greta Nissen, as a Parisian blonde called Fabienne, spends many film feet in his arms and on his lips-be the place Paris or Venice or the desert sands. They get married, quarrel, make up, etc. And finally, DEATH-Prince Fazil, mortally wounded by bandits, takes off his poison ring and lovingly punctures the white finger of Fabienne...
When Mr. Durant went back to General Motors (1916) he insisted that Mr. Chrysler be vice-president. There was a quarrel over policy; Mr. Chrysler resigned. John North Willys figuratively clutched at him to work down Willys-Overland's $46,000,000 bank debt. Within less than a year the debt was down...
...Whigs but that he had as good a standing in the Whig party as any other man - the Whig party being a composite party. Moreover, Tyler's efforts for peace in 1861 exclude the idea that he had any "embitterment" against the government on account of any party quarrel in 1841. Your article challenges a comparison. Both Tyler and Lincoln were confronted with war when they took office. In 1841 the menacing factor was Great Britain, supported by France and Mexico. Had war ensued, the Union would have been "encircled with a wall of fire." From this threatening situation...