Word: quarrelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significant is the fact that one group of 700 company employees had no quarrel with the policy of the A and P, as they claimed that they were being fairly treated and that wages and working conditions were satisfactory. At the same time, another group of employees, led by union leaders, announced that "a closed shop was essential to protect the interest of employees." Measures adopted by this latter group, included the blockade of trucks under contract to deliver A and P goods, the agitation against employees, who desired to return to their jobs, some picketing and violence with...
...warms my heart to read such manifestations of benign simplicity, such expression of hopeful belief in our modern world or professed disillusionment. Just the day before yesterday, another communicant, writing from Idaho, in a criticism of one of Professor Frankfurter recent speeches, expressed the same sentiment. I have no quarrel with such beauties of thought and soul--I myself dare even hope that perhaps one day that world of Truth and Virtue, and absolute honesty of institutions shall be my abode. But I thought Truth (whatever we know about it) only existed in heaven. In fact, I am convinced...
Though Frieda and Lawrence quarreled they never separated for long. She shared his nomad existence 18 years, in Europe, Ceylon, Australia, the U. S., was with him in his last days on the Riviera. "I enjoyed being poor and I didn't want to play a role in the world." The thing she missed most was her children, whom she saw only secretly, at bitterly long intervals. The Lawrences quarreled not only with each other but with most of their friends. Their friendship with Katherine Mansfield and Middleton Murry "was the only spontaneous and jolly" one they...
...innocent amusement, and there are those who will say that youth should be served, and that every, thug should have his day; there will be alumni who will cry out saying that it weakens the team, but it is safe to say that the opposing coaches will have no quarrel with the suggested move. Time and the reaction of the inmates as measured by the frequency of attempt at leaving the team in the lurch by departing the place can only tell the ultimate fate of the move...
Annie, the adulteress, is an Irish-Catholic girl. She came to the U. S. with a young girl friend when she was 14. When she was 19 she married a kindly Protestant who was 25 years her senior. His great fault was a disposition to quarrel about religion, especially after their daughter was born. He permitted his wife to leave him for a younger Protestant with whom she fell in love. Busybodies had her arrested for adultery. After her reformatory term she went back to her lover, became a Protestant, has grown stout and religious...