Word: frictioned
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...denial was printed by Le Matin of the reported friction existing between President Millerand and Premier Poincare. M. Poincare, in his speech at Bar-le-Duc, spoke of men who had exchanged the Socialist red flag for the French tricolor. It was suggested that he referred to M. Millerand, who started his political career as an extreme Socialist and has gradually become a Republican...
...Overseers have tried to legislate it out of existence. And she will go on having a race problem for some generations to come. There are groups at Harvard, as at Columbia and Chicago and?to a less extent?at Yale and Princeton which are not harmonious. The result is friction and ill feeling which cannot help but have unfortunate effects
...These mines, in a district which is under the supervision of the League of Nations, are worked by German laborers, with French engineers, representing the French government in charge of the men. One would naturally suppose that the war being over such a short time, a great amount of friction and hard feeling would exist between the Frenchmen and the Germans. Instead of this the workingman and the engineer have met each other halfway and have come to a surprisingly good understanding under such circumstances The result of all this is increased production, higher wages, and mutual respect...
...alliance which won the war. The moral support of the United States is a very uncertain quantity in future trouble between France and Germany; and with Americans on the Rhine, the French breathe more freely. England wants the United States to remain in Germany because there has been less friction between the Germans and their conquerors where Americans instead of French troops have been stationed. Last of all, the thought of the American departure, because frankly, they did not believe so much money was in the world as the American soldiers have been spending in Coblenz...
...fame that comes through new filing systems and of love on a park bench; weary of the present day "realism" and all that it implies, it is pleasant to find a book that deals, virllely enough, with beauty and gallantry--and villainy. There is more than enough of present friction that tells us of our own civilization and mechanics, when God knows we see too much of it day by day; more than enough of the "romance of business" which is no romance. Inevitably are there times when we long to have, (as what gentleman should not?) "at least twenty...