Word: quarrelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strictly nonpolitical, the A. L. I. nevertheless last week was the field for one more joust in a historic political quarrel. Every newshawk assigned to Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel knew that a letter of greeting from Franklin Roosevelt would be read to the Institute's 15th annual meeting, and that Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes would address some "informal remarks." They expected that Mr. Hughes would mention the work of the Supreme Court. Overt conflict over the President's plan to rejuvenate the Supreme Court would naturally be as remote as the conflict in ideology...
Compounded of jealousies and cross-accusations as to what who had said about whom, the quarrel got into court because Daughter Roberta thought she had been slandered. Attorney Andrews, she said, had publicly stated that Sister Aimee had been "threatened, intimidated, coerced and blackmailed"-presumably by her daughter. For this Daughter Roberta demanded $150,000 damages from her mother's counsel...
...more than 1,000 years, but use & wont was not the difficulty. Unfortunately for peace, the worst old maid in town had her window very near by. Her complaints merely attracted more unseemly goings-on than ever. A merciless churchgoer, she embroiled the gentle parish priest in her quarrel, soon had all Clochemerle divided into Urinophobes and Urinophiles. Scandals grew and burgeoned, culminating in a near-riot in the church itself. After that, disasters followed fast. Jealous citizens from a neighboring village came by night, blew up the urinal; the Government, with mistaken zeal, quartered troops on Clochemerle and precipitated...
...factories. Out to enlist every Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. employe, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers adopted a system of Class B memberships for non-members of its craft. Machinists, streetcar and other craft unions were spreading out on the same lines, working up to a first-rate Federation family quarrel. The president of C. I. O.'s United Electrical & Radio Workers, also out to organize Westinghouse, cheerfully noted that to achieve its aim his A. F. of L. rival would have to trespass on the jurisdictions of no less than 37 of its fellow craft unions...
...When royalty checks stopped coming, and Kate was pregnant once again, and credit at the butcher's and baker's grew narrower, Alec's creative flow dried up to nearly nothing. As household chores became major problems, his and Kate's intercourse became a continuous quarrel. At last he threw up the dry sponge, gave up his thankless Art, took them all home to find a more comfortable way to live...