Word: strife
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President Doumergue called upon M. Herriot to form a Cabinet. Forty-eight hours later the Mayor of Lyons was obliged to confess that strife within his own Left Coalition made it impossible for him to form a Cabinet. M. Briand the tale is told, had secretly hamstrung the Herriot Coalition from within...
...over. Out of 1,000 of these divorced boys, 116 play harps in heaven; out of 1,000 single fellows of the same age group, 112 enter the angelic host; while out of 1,000 married youngsters of the same age-group, only 80, with 'storm and strife' to contend with, knock at St. Peter's Pearly Gates...
...SPLENDID SHILLING?Idwal Jones?Doubleday, Page ($2). "Happy the man who, devoid of cares and strife, in silken or in leathern purse retains the splendid shilling." So lied the old Welsh proverb. The girl, Danzel, wore the crusted coin?rapt from the empty ribs of a warrior?until there was a green stain on her breast. She made to give it to Guy Puncheon as he left Wales to let his half-gypsy blood race free and find their fortune. But it dropped between them, which may have been the omen. Guy found it, pouched it in silk against...
...hence, be hard to consider the journalistic evils of our time as fit subjects for execration or ingenious reform. They are rather a symptom of a state and condition of society which is to be met and considered not alone in a dissemination of the news, but in industrial strife, in social stratification, and increasingly in political agitation...
...study in contrasts is Cecil B. DeMille's "The Volga Boatman," now showing at the Fenway. In this, and in many other respects, the film is typical of De Mille's technique as a director. His scene is Russia in 1917, his theme the strife between the blue-blooded aristocrats and the Russian Reds. It is a film showing all of DeMille's excellences and all his defects. The scenario was written by a Rumanian, Konrad Bercovici, and its original motive is the song of the same name, made famous in this country by the Chauve Souris. Incidently the song...