Word: quarrelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...condescend to quarrel with your opponent. Let your underlings...
...Mary-With Love (Twentieth Century-Fox). "People are always saying the movies should be more like life. I think life should be more like the movies," says Mary Wallace (Myrna Loy) soon after she has had a quarrel with her husband. This movie is too much like life to be spectacular entertainment. Nevertheless it is a biting case history of what has happened to some bright young people in the last ten years...
...Hunter) who had also loved her with dogged devotion. Bill stuck to his role as friend of the family, while Jock and Mary went careening up & down the economic and emotional roller-coaster on which the rest of the world was riding. Bill saw them have their first epochal quarrel, on the way home from the Tunney-Dempsey fight in Philadelphia, and knew that they were fighting fundamentally because Mary wanted to get more fun out of life while Jock wanted to make more money. Bill saw true love withstand marital unfaithfulness; he even tried to help it withstand...
Died. Beatty S. Balestier, 69, Vermont farmer, brother-in-law of the late Rudyard Kipling; in Brattleboro, Vt. After a roadside quarrel over money in 1896, Poet Kipling had him arrested for threatening his life, put under $400 peace bond. Shortly thereafter Kipling closed his Vermont estate for good, returned to England...
...Sultan kept a primitive court where he enjoyed the favors of scores of wives in his youth, several in his old age, although he begot no offspring. Three nieces, however, he adopted as his daughters. No sooner had he died than one of them, Princess Dayang Dayang,* began to quarrel with Hadji Butu, the late Sultan's grand vizier, over who was to succeed Kiram II. Dayang Dayang won the first round. Since the Sultan's corpse was rapidly putrefying and could not be buried until a new ruler had been chosen, she secured the appointment...