Word: bickering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addressed serious recommendations to Congress. Upon only one of these, taxation, did Congress act, and upon that confusedly. Neither farm marketing; nor railroad consolidation, nor the Muscle Shoals, nor reclamation, nor the World Court was honored with effective attention. Over farm marketing and the Music Shoals, Congress deigned to bicker for a while. But when it might have entertained the other propositions. It was busied with doling out souvenir cannon and war monuments to the towns back home...
George White's Scandals. Some like musical comedy hot, some like it bold, some like it well seasoned, so that they can understand the jokes. On the last score, no one can bicker with Mr. White. At least six of his japes must have been familiar to Grover Cleveland, but should that august and venerated gentleman return, for a few loose minutes, to visit the pit of a Manhattan theatre he would doubtless laugh roundly at them. For it is the peculiar genius of Mr. White to make an act out of an anecdote, to spin an innocent jest...
...only at the end of considerable discussion by the committee appointed by President Hibben last spring after the abolishment of bicker week that the new plan was drawn up. The system is organized to solve the problems of opening the clubs to Sophomores. It permits them periodical vists to Prospect street, and allows free bickering after a certain date...
...husband is a playwright, the wife an actress, and so far their marrriage has begotten only temperament. O'Neill shows them snarling and yapping, making quarrels their chief recreation. They bicker about nothing, repetitiously, inconclusively, murderously, amorously. For they actually wrangle because they love each other too much to leave each other alone...
This action was taken as a result of last Bicker week which was the worst in the history of the University. A committee will be appointed by President Hibben to propose a new plan of club election...