Word: quarreling
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...they become so haughty and arrogant to one another that their fathers are compelled to tell them the truth. Then they separate, and Percinet sets out into the world to seek adventure. Bergamin and Pasquinot, thrown into too close intimacy, soon grow tired of one another's company, and quarrel, but when Percinet returns, with his fond illusions shattered, matters arrange themselves to the satisfaction...
...third place, the doctor brings a flag of truce to every quarrel between man and man. In every day life as well as on the battlefield he is always welcome and unarmed...
Professor Lefranc traced briefly the growth of the Renaissance movement for the education of woman. Moliere took an active part in this quarrel, as in others. His attitude, as revealed in "Les Femmes Savantes," was not opposed to the education of women, but merely to the excess of this tendency, which, as other excesses, he held up to ridicule...
...third Hyde lecture on "Moliere," delivered yesterday by Professor Abel Lefranc, the eminent authority on the literature of the French Renaissance, was devoted chiefly to a discussion of the relations of "Don Juan" to the great quarrel treated in the previous lecture and to a consideration of "Le Misanthrope...
...scene of the play is laid in Athens. The plot deals with the repudiation by Charisios of his wife Pamphile on account of a serious quarrel. Two slaves, Daos and Syriskos, bring about a reconciliation by appealing to the parents' love for their deserted child, who is identified by a ring that has once been the property of Charisios...