Word: squalling
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After the fall of Cannonism, after a split with Theodore Roosevelt, after a squall with Samuel Gompers, "Uncle Joe" spent eight years (1915-23) in Congress in the subdued role of a mere member. Then he returned to Danville, to see how his Second National Bank* was getting along, to sing his old favorite songs...
...Squall. The best stage storm of the season disrupts the serene domesticity of a Spanish household. From under the black clouds, into a country home, scurries a gipsy girl, fleeing from her man with a whip. The ladies of the household take her under their protection-foolishly, because the gipsy has more sex appeal than all the rest of the family put together. Within one year (intermission) she seduces the manservant, the son and the master of the house. And she does these things in the big parlor hall that gives on every room in the house. The ladies...
Behind the recall petition is a nine-year battle between Governor Hartley and Dr. Henry Suzzallo, who was dismissed as President of the University of Washington by a Hartley-packed board of regents three weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 18). The squall began during the War when Mr. Suzzallo of the Labor Industries Board urged that Mr. Hartley, then a potent lumberman, should put his burly lumberjacks on an eight-hour day. The two men did not become any better friends when Mr. Hartley became Governor in 1925 and smashed into Mr. Suzzallo's scheme for a bigger, better...
...that it is embarrassing. When the President receives the official invitations from the World Court members, he cannot accept them in their altered form without consulting the Senate, neither can he pigeonhole them after politely thanking Europe, All of which means that there will probably be another World Court squall in the Senate within the. next two years. Already the Senatorial "diehards" arid irreconcilables, who unsuccessfully fumed against the Court last winter, are whetting their axes for a new battle...
...April 12, LETTERS) accuses us married workers of lack of respectability, I'd like to commit mayhem on her. Poor, coddled hausfrau! Perhaps a man stupid enough to marry such a nixnox has been superseded over his rut by an alert married woman worker. Yet his "missus" need not squall...