Word: strife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision of the National Committee to restore the South's Convention delegates will bring a fight. The opposition group questions the validity of the Committee's decision-contrary to the direction of the 1920 Convention. When the 1924 Convention assembles there will be great strife in the Committee on credentials and loud protests from Senator Howell and his allies...
...Palace of the King. This slice of the cinema Outline of History takes the spectator for a protracted visit to Spain in the 16th Century. To afford opportunity for a vast and valuable display of costumes, helmets and architecture, a love story with familiar portions of jealousy and strife is unwound. Pictorially the production is excellent; as narrative it is dull. Blanche Sweet and Edmund Lowe make personable protagonists...
...Straton is confronted with strife within his church and evil without...
...other hand the autonomous life of Fiume has proved a material impossibility. The internal strife is too violent and could lead to serious troubles. The city cannot live without finding a powerful moral and financial support. Its small population of 40,000 souls cannot bear unaided the weight of such a large and important administration. So far Italy has spent hundreds of millions in supporting the Harbor-City and has saved it from anarchy...
Life is no pathway of roses in Mr. Gompers' view. " Happiness cannot be granted to man below," he philosophized. " Life is but a strife. . . . I have almost had my very soul burned in the trials of life...