Word: spite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...temptation to cry the equivalent of "Copy cat!" last week, a most unwise thing to do because the Soviet Government is now making every effort to get itself recognized by President Hoover. "I scarcely know,'' said Litvinov scathingly, "whether Mr. Gibson spoke in support of my plan or in spite...
...spite of the fact that the present instance is perfectly excusable, it should not be allowed to obscure the fact, that Harvard is not doing all it could to keep abreast of the times in what might be called the newer sciences. Eugenics is one of them, and the fact that it is not yet anywhere near an exact science is no valid reason for its not being fostered by the Harvard curriculum. In fact the amorphousness in which most theories for race betterment now find themselves should be but a stronger incentive for serious efforts toward research and instruction...
...Vagabond, poor mortal that he is in spite of certain academic proclivities, has hidden away in his mind a few problems and questions which from time to time come forth to irk him with their barbed amorphousness. And among these is the desire to know the identity of the seer who made the immortal observation that "it never rains but it pours." Could he but discover the name of that sooth-sayer, the Vagabond would--at least not wonder any longer and be able to give credit where it is due when the truth of the remark is manifestly clear...
...Knopf ($3.50) Author Hergesheimer's concept of the Civil War does not startle. He employs no impelling format such as Stephen Vincent Benet's in John Brown's Body. In his graceful manner he merely fashions what his publishers are pleased to call belles lettres. In spite of this he commands a host of readers. Sensitive to nuances of a bygone age, he distills the essence of proverbial Southern romance, imprisons it in luxuriant prose: "The deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues of cedars, and shaded with...
...approaching election. Though Conservatives and Liberals are as cats and dogs, a Liberal spokesman, Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman, backed up the Government and declared before a cheering House, "The world must realize that once Great Britain has put her name to an undertaking she will carry it through in spite of the vicissitudes of political fortune." Anxious hours in conference with prominent Laborites had convinced Leader MacDonald that as leader of the party there was but one thing for him to do. Rising late in the evening, he began by rebuking the Conservatives for insinuating that should the Labor party...