Word: quarreling
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Ernost Hutchinson's four-act play, setting forth the bitter quarrel of labor and capital from an original aspect, struck it right when E. E. Clive's Copley repertories choose to give it an initial production in America. With an unusually able cast composed almost entirely of English actors. "The Right to Strike" is sympathetically interpreted and moves on through four terse acts gathering momentum till the final curtain climax...
Paris is soon to witness a sensational lawsuit. The cause of the suit to be sure, is only a quarrel between two dressmaking houses and would not have lured a single Frenchman from his escargots (snails) had not the plaintiff engaged ex-Premier ex-President Alexandre Millerand as counsel and had not the defense engaged ex-President ex-Premier Raymond Poincar...
...After all," he concluded, "I shall not introduce an amendment to the bill in favor of fleas. I cannot bring myself to permit a flea to provoke a serious constitutional quarrel between the two Houses...
...land, which may or may not be there to the north of everything else, may not be found by MacMillan, may or may not cause a quarrel between Canada and Maine. Why Maine? "Because," said Governor Brewster in the farewell banquet given the explorers at Wiscasset, "this land will belong to Maine." And he presented MacMillan with the silken flag of the state to plant on this hypothetical land by way of a stake-claim notice...
...gales of recrimination, deluges of tears. The sun reappears when, for a motive of her own, a delicious minor character-the spinster sister of the durable male friend -shoehorns some one else into the host's desirable London position. As basking is resumed, it is observed that "every quarrel, however trivial, contains all the quarrels that are older than the hills...