Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the sharp protest of Senator Vandenberg the Senate of the United States has voted $57,610,000 on an appropriation which the House had denied. Their explanation was that the President has begun on his own authority relief projects to reclaim land, and these projects could be completed only with additional funds. President Roosevelt had in effect committed the government to large expenditures without so much as consulting Congress. He had, incidentally, committed it to the foolish policy of reclaiming farm land at the same time it is retiring other land from cultivation...
Farson's patience and energetic bonhomie were rewarded; he did well enough to set up his own selling company. Then came the Russian Revolution, in which, in spite of his good friend John Reed's hot tips, he had taken no stock. When his business and night life both ended, he went to England, got a commission in the Royal Flying Corps, and was sent to Egypt. A bad crash left him with a troublesome leg, which has cost him a total of three years in hospital. With no job, money or prospects he married an English girl...
...Boston's City Hall politics have become synonymous with minor corruption and civic extravagance. It is common knowledge that an Irish mayor contributed materially to the subsequent collapse of one of the city's oldest and largest banks out of personal spite by causing a run on its resources during a financial crisis. The third generation of Boston Irish has, in an impressive number of instances, done much to justify the shirtsleeve adage...
...countess whose strennous efforts to uphold the amenities are always failing; the pedantic and bespectacled English girl awkwardly seeking a husband; and many others of a similar comic "genre". The plot is one of clean drawing-room intrigue, arising from the misunderstanding of misplaced letters. And yet in spite of its conventional nineteenth-century machinery, the film is genuinely amusing. The lines are distinguished by their delightful penetration into the incongruities of human character; and they are spoken superbly. As is rare in an American movie, but usual in a French, each character is an individual. The expressive nuances...
...there in quality. Astaire's solos are "We Saw the Sea" and "I'd Rather Lead a Rand"; Ginger's; "Let Yourself Go". Together they frolic about in "All My Eggs in One Basket" and "Let's Face the Music". Another disconcerting fact is that these songs, in spite of their distinguished authorship, are not catchy enough to have become entangled in our memory...