Word: tiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the elements of a first class Franco-British tiff were thus brewing, the foreign offices of these two "old friend" countries hastily devised a formula which would save faces all round. They proposed, unofficially, to the U. S. State Department that an international conference of jurists be called to draft the final Peace Pact text. To this proposal Secretary Kellogg returned an unofficial but emphatic "No!" Thus he shrewdly sought to force the Allied Powers to declare before public opinion whether or not they are ready to "renounce...
...Parents' Exposition at the Grand Central Palace in Manhattan last week, they would have found little to contradict their previous observations. Exhibitions of groceries, toys, corrective literature, propaganda were there aplenty. Parents said: "Don't touch that;" and children clamored for ice cream. Then there arose a tiff between eminent parents; the officials of the Parents' Exposition, at the suggestion of New York Superintendent of Schools William J. O'Shea, refused to allow the American Birth Control League to exhibit its wares at. the Grand Central Palace. So the A.B.C.L. set up its headquarters across...
That night the directors of the Vienna Opera sat in consultation. They knew that the temperament, the popularity of Mme. Jeritza, had long galled the other singers. Fricka's spittle criticism was the outcome of a tiff that had been flaring ever since Mme. Jeritza, roseate from her U.S. triumphs, came to fill a spring engagement in her native metropolis. Who, the directors debated, was the mightiest: the wife of Wotan, or the wife of the Baron Von Popper...
...Exchequer is incapable of understanding that any person can be moved by honest political convictions." (Torrents of protest from the Government side of the House, loud cries of "withdraw.") Mr. Snowden retorted: "I will follow Mr. Churchill's example and withdraw nothing." Some time before his tiff with Mr. Snowden, Mr. Churchill's attention was brought to the fact that foreign nations were "dumping" duty-free articles on the country to avoid the preference duties which are to be established by the operation of the McKenna duties oh July 1. As a warning to foreign nations and importers...
...Lady Astor, Conservative, had a tiff with Tom Johnson, burly Laborite. Said her ladyship: "The honorable members opposite are always getting after me because I refuse to join the Socialist party...