Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soprano Gorman piped prettily as the ingenuous young heroine. But in spite of Eugene Goossens' deft conducting, there was many a time when it was impossible to hear her over the big Wagner orchestra. Generous Cincinnati critics credited her with having made a promising start in opera. Newshawks made much of the facts that she had once won a bathing beauty contest (in 1929), when she was a high-school student in Bessemer, Mich., that she had twice been invited to join the Follies. Such publicity found little favor with the Gorman family which comes from proud old Gloucester...
...Westcott, Manager of the University Dining Halls, stated last night that probably the delay in transportation caused by flood waters was responsible. It seems possible that partial separation of the cream may have occurred. He added that in spite of its taste the milk was perfectly wholesome and approved by State authorities...
...spite of Ned's drinking Evalyn tried to be a good mother to the four children she somehow had. When she gave her first little boy a children's party she never spent less than $15,000 on it. And to keep him from becoming a snob she bought him a little colored playmate, had him washed, perfumed, dressed in Paris clothes. That experiment, however, was not a success. When the McLeans became great friends with President Harding and the Ohio Gang, Evalyn had high hopes of Ned's ultimate reformation, but he was inevitably headed...
Books, talk, drink, women he tasted greedily but skeptically, came to the conclusion that self-love was the myopia that blinded nearly everyone he knew, including himself. In spite of his intelligentsiac friends he decided that intelligence was not a menace: it was simply not being used. Because the Communists seemed to him as myopic as everyone else he refused to be a Communist. Instead he married the faithful Athene, who had been "a kind of mother to five years of grief," went with her back to his family home in Idaho, settled down to write his honest story...
...frankly on the side they supported so well in fact and action. In some cases, they themselves knew not of my mastership. But millions followed them, thinking, to bring peace through war, temperance through legislation, employment through high wages, morality through censorship, and Americanism through oaths, for teachers. In spite of all the kow-towing, buttering, and boot-licking to abhorrent ends, the balance weighed overwhelmingly with Evil, and that, though not all to a perfectionist, mattered most...