Word: quarreling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quarrel between Poultney Bigelow, American author, and H. G. Wells, paradoxical British internationalist, waxes interesting. In Mr. Bigelow's recent book of reminiscences, he criticised the manners of Mr. Wells in no half-hearted way. Whereupon the British author administered through the press of his country the reproof valiant. Attached to his declaration was the thundering footnote, "American papers please copy...
...Last Edition" which, for some reason unknown to us was included on the same bill stars the portly Ralph Lewis, who has been everything from a good mail man to a bad boy scout, as foreman of a pressroom. We quarrel with this picture on grounds of professional honesty. When a press room no matter what press room assumes some such motto as Love, Honor and Purity then someone is lying and ought to have his mouth washed out with soap. The type setter's quartet broadcasting "Sweet Adcline" before the evening's work, for all the world like...
RUNAWAY?Floyd Dell?Doran ($2). Michael Shenstone had a quarrel with respectability, and when for 13 years it had seared his wanderlustful soul, he bolted, leaving wife and child to Beaumont's communal pity. Seventeen years he spent raping the beautiful heads of Chinese idols and vagabonding in the Orient. At last he returned with a gay malacca stick, a piquant cloak and no repentance in his heart, only a desire to have a look at his daughter. In the end respectability made him hers through the romance of father love, and the accident of discovering a defaulter, which...
...chronic stars with whom you cannot quarrel. He always does the same, does it well and to the complete satisfaction of the millions. If it is stereotyped and unimportant it does not matter. This cinema is a Western rouser with a dynamited dam and flood at the climax...
...possible son-in-law, for Orestes' father, Agamemnon, comes home and is murdered by Clytemnestra, who is in turn killed by Orestes. Surely it would not do to make an alliance with such a family. But Orestes meets Pyrrhus on the road and kills him after a quarrel, and Hermione elopes with Orestes...