The composer frequently took Solange's side in quarrels with her mother; he also faced jealousy from Sand's son Maurice.
They never quarrelled face to face or bad-mouthed one another around Westminster, but treated each other with a wary respect.
Diamond Stone is reported to have punched her mother in the face during the quarrel, while her two front teeth were knocked out when 53-year-old Angie struck her with a metal stand.
It was another way of asking: What strange sociological process explains me?" And because, in addition to "courage", "test pilots" etc, The Right Stuff is all about Wolfe, it exhibits its author's lifelong – and, let's face it, southern – quarrel with the New York literary establishment.
But once they met face to face, no quarrels erupted.
The journalist, Du Bin, said in an interview hours after his release that he could still face trial for "picking quarrels and making trouble," accusations he said stemmed from his recent film about a Chinese labor camp and a book about the crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters.
Cumberland was querulous in the face of criticism and quarreled with many famous contemporaries, notably Sheridan and Oliver Goldsmith, both of whom were opposed to sentimentalism in the drama.
He had a puffy face, too probably he tippled, and tippling, quarrelled, and quarrelling, got beaten, though he bore no scars to show for an affray, only puffiness.
Her arms were folded and her head was a little cocked, as if they were having a lovers' quarrel, but her face was suddenly calm and expressionless.
But today, the three were done with their quarreling, in the face of anxieties over the civil war that could break out in Baghdad if the American siege is protracted.
