Word: quarrelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claimed to have lined up not only his own huge industrial union but the International Typographical Union, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Ladies' Garment Workers, Mine, Mill & Smelter Union, milliners, rubber and brewery workers. However, he was at pains to disclaim any ambition to unseat William Green, vowed that the quarrel would be conducted within the Federation...
...considered as unfriendly by Italy. Nevertheless, we must state specifically that such action is taken in our own interest, not in co-operation with the League. Otherwise, should Italy and any of the League nations actually go to war, we should be extremely embarrassed by having prejudged the quarrel and given aid to one of the belligerents...
...comedy is "Three Men on a Horse". Simple in structure, very Damon Runyon in execution, it has a contagious hilarity and nonsense which must bring all but the utterly high-brow to uproarious laughter. Erwin Trowbridge, henpecked author of verses for Mother's Day greeting cards has a bitter quarrel with his spouse and is so far diverted from his routine that he goes not to the office but forthwith to a very low pub where he falls in with a group of down-at-the-heels race track touts. It has been Erwin's harmless amusement as he daily...
With DuBose Heyward as his librettist, Composer Gershwin kept his work faithful to the play. The Negroes of Charleston's Catfish Row live in the same rickety tenements. They still quarrel and kill over their crap games, still shout their religion, their love and fear of ''Lawd Jesus." Porgy, the crippled beggar, appears driving his seedy goat. The simple love story is his. Bess belongs to the murderer Crown. According to the neighbors she is "a liquor-guzzlin' slut," a "Happy Dust" addict. Porgy gives her shelter, buys her a divorce although she never has been...
...Weston Liggett. branch manager of a tool manufacturing company, father of two daughters and husband of an unloved Boston girl. Gloria was one of a succession of casual and some-times painful affairs. Increasingly attracted to her. he never understood her, was shocked at her theft. When (hey quarreled about it in a speakeasy Weston got into a fight, was badly beaten up, stumbled home to disgrace his wife. Arrangements were under way for a divorce when he hunted for Gloria, found her at last on a dingy Boston boat, in time to quarrel with her again and witness...