Word: quarrelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volume to his unique and invaluable set of contemporary plays. Since 1918, he has selected, with the aid of his newspapers colleagues, the "ten best plays produced in New York City" each year, limiting this choice of course to new plays in the English language. There is usually little quarrel with his selections. The Pulitzer Prize play is always included. Most of the other plays are outstanding popular successes or artistic triumphs which won special praise from the chosen few. Of course there is not room enough to give the complete text of each play, but there is no fault...
...cared for and raised at sporadic intervals in his career. When the child grew up she married and became the mother of a baby girl which Rounsevell in turn also adopted. This second adopted child is now grown and the mother of adopted Barbara Rounsevell. Because of an old quarrel with the Colon steamship agents, resulting in the loss of two full pages of daily advertising in the Panama American, "N. R." is now bending every effort to establish an intercontinental road through Panama. The completion of this road will afford Publisher Rounsevell a great deal of pleasure, especially...
While Germany prepares to hold the 1936 Olympic Games, the world's two other great troublemaking nations, Italy and Japan, have been quarreling bitterly for the honor of the 1940 Olympics. For Japan, whose sprint swimmers made an astounding sweep of the 1932 Olympics, the quarrel has become a bitter national issue, a crucial matter of forcing the Western World to admit once and for all that it no longer considers the Japanese an inferior race...
...most amusing spectacles on the U. S. stage has been Mr. Lunt licking Miss Fontanne, their fantastic rowing in The Taming of the Shrew is some-thing to see. Also something to see is the pair of them mounted in a little golden chariot at the finale, their quarrel mended, headed upward through a painted sky to further and more fabulous adventures...
...grew up with the fixed belief that in the world of the theatre, work and play were the same. The belief stayed with him after he had been laughed off the Parisian and provincial stages, written a hit at the age of 20, lived through a 13-year quarrel with his father, known most of the theatrical great of his day, become the most famed of French actor-directors and playwrights...