Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Garden Murder Case" Philo Vance (Edmund Lowe) sets about solving the death of a gentleman jockey, but he finds himself with two other murders and what he considers a lovely girl (Virginia Bruce) on his hands before he is through. Yet in spite of a plot that confused our untrained mind, and a few stray remarks like "Elementary, m'dear Watson," which belong to Doyle, not Van Dine, the picture is a satisfactory piece, and rounds out an entertaining program...
...spite of losing the opening match of the season with Pennsylvania, a team which the Crimson has defeated for seven years straight, Coach Cowles looks forward to one of his best tennis seasons ever. His hopes were considerably strengthened by the 9-0 shellacking pinned on the Naval Academy in the final encounter of the southern tour...
...Varsity Fifties are coming along slowly with a decent-enough showing for this time of the season in spite of two Yale veterans out, Piper and Adams. Piper has not rowed since before vacation and with these two men soon to return the Varsity Fifty boat should begin to develop rapidly...
...never given him a working majority of the Common Council; he has had one since 1932 only because two opposition members went over to his side. The votes which have returned Dan Hoan to the City Hall five times have come from conservative citizens who wanted him there in spite of his Socialist ideas...
...future lovers did not meet again until Nelson had lost an eye and an arm and won world-wide fame by demolishing the French fleet in Aboukir Bay. Then the Hero of the Nile led his fleet into the Bay of Naples, and there he stayed, in spite of the welcome (and the patient wife) awaiting him at home, in spite of hints and finally orders from his superior officers. When a French-abetted revolution broke out in Naples, Nelson transported the court and the Hamiltons to Sicily. When the revolution faded out he brought them back again, helped...