Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program, nevertheless, is barbarous. To subject intense human suffering to such pitiless glare of publicity is indecent. ... It attracts its audience by appeal to just those morbid impulses which turn notorious murder trials into courtroom circuses...
...usual in Europe, but are practically always accompanied by religious or civil ceremonies. Lawyer Delson recommends his find for deaf-mutes because such contracts require no words, take but 35 sec. to sign. They should also appeal to Quakers, Mennonites and other sectarians who dislike to swear oaths. Nevertheless Bride McGraw and Groom Mallina did by no means avoid Godliness. Their contract stipulated that it was as good as a religious ceremony, and day after they signed it they repaired, for a short philosophic talk, to the home of famed Columbia Professor John Dewey, who believes in a vague humanistic...
...Beaver, Pa., after Mrs. John Fields had testified in a non-support suit that her husband "hadn't taken a bath in 15 years," Judge Henry Wilson announced he would nevertheless give custody of the two children to the father. "Maybe he'll take a bath," explained Judge Wilson. "Solomon has to take a long shot once in a while...
...cauldron never ceases. It begins when lovely little Renée Séverin, wife of a French officer, leaves the tropics to take her two children to the ancestral home of the Séverins in northern France. The most sensible character in the story, Renée nevertheless has more than a little of the mysterious in her makeup: an undisclosed past, a touch of African blood in her veins, strange intuitions, dark, puzzling eyes. She is a rock of common sense compared to her dreamy husband, Captain Pierre Séverin, who mutters ominously that she must...
Standard Oil of California nevertheless remained in the running until May 1935. when Oilman Sinclair cagily deprived Standard of its big incentive for buying Richfield by buying out Richfield's Eastern subsidiary. Richfield Oil Co. of New York. There followed a period in which the Doherty-Sinclair understanding awaited better days in the oil business and Richfield's able Receiver William Chester McDuffie continued to cut down annual losses in the face of excessive depreciation and depletion charges. Last spring, when Richfield was coming back to black ink for the first time since 1930, Harry Sinclair and Harry...