Word: quarrelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, when she sailed for home, Barbara Ward left many such simplifications strewn behind her. They left Americans wondering whether she was as wise as she sounded, or wiser. At any rate, no one could quarrel with her cheerful assertion that she "had a horrible facility with words...
Sixty Telegrams. It was a riotous marriage. The newlyweds sailed for Europe with the ceiling of their honeymoon stateroom blanketed with orchids. After one tempestuous quarrel Evalyn chartered a yacht, left her husband. He sent her 60 consecutive telegrams begging forgiveness, and she came back. One day at Carder's, McLean spent $154,000 on a present which was to be inseparably linked with her name for the rest of her life-the baleful, blue Hope Diamond, which had supposedly brought death or disaster to all who had owned...
...York, far from the quarrel, talkative, companionable Niemeyer will not speak of politics. With Old Teacher Le Corbusier (also busy on U.N. planning), he prefers to gawk at Manhattan's cluttered masonry like any visiting fire man. The Niemeyer opinion of Rockefeller Center-"good"; of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s great 11,250-family Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town projects on the East River-"commercial, crowded, all brick and no glass...
...Lose a Precept. British Tories agree almost unanimously on the necessity of thorough public controls. They quarrel mostly with the degree and not the principle of public ownership. They believe that free enterprise has gone out of their lives; and a sizable minority believes that that is a good thing. The current best hope of most businessmen who think of themselves as conservatives is that they will be left reasonably unrestricted as the agents of public enterprise...
Mother Love. In Cape Town, South Africa, Chatrina Stoffberg hurled her baby at another woman during a heated quarrel, lifted the uninjured infant off the concrete floor, took it to prison with her when she was sentenced to three months hard labor...