Word: truce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book" (an ancient "Cyclopedia of Nursery Remedies") that never again would they allow themselves to be separated and parcelled out to their various undeserving parents. For of parents there were almost as many as children: The Wheaters sponsored Judy, the twins, and after divorce and remarriage, Chipstone, badge of truce. In an intervening marriage to a gaudy cinema star Mr. Wheater begat Zinnie, while Mrs. Wheater retaliated with a decadent Italian prince, and adopted Beechy and Bun, offspring of his earlier alliance with a circus acrobat. When the Wheaters remarried (each other), cinema actress and Italian prince found further unsuitable...
...There is no truce with these fellows...
...hastening a renewal of this old acquaintanceship their efforts are to be commended. Shaking hands and cancelling old grudges is a more delicate maneuver for rival athletic associations than it is for quarrelsome small boys, but in this case little excuse remains for a longer postponement of the truce. Vale Daily News...
...Bituminous operators of Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, anticipating a general strike when a current wage truce ends on April 1, jointly engaged John W. Davis as their chief counsel and negotiator at a reputed fee of $100,000 per annum...
That debaters in the U. S. Congress were trying to observe a truce on the Nicaraguan situation and other subjects ticklish to the Pan-American Congress...