Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your article on Miss Maribel Vinson, the celebrated skater [TIME, Dec. 23], you give a long list of her extracurricular activities while at Radcliffe, but you fail to mention that in spite of all her outside interests she received the Degree of Bachelor of Arts With Distinction in the Romance Languages. This shows, it seems to me, that she uses her head as well as her legs...
...spite of his blindness. Senator Schall used to ride horseback frequently in Washington's suburbs, used to cross Washington streets freely with a trained police dog as guide. Last week, unaccompanied by horse or hound, he trusted to human guidance, was struck down to death...
...Daughters of the American Revolution. (The one Daughter in the book is a throwback, impoverished into sympathy for her Red neighbors.) Marching! Marching! obeys the law of Marxian fiction in having no hero but half-a-dozen protagonists, each symbolizing some aspect of the proletarian struggle. In spite of her ancestry and her creed, Clara Weatherwax writes first-rate, first-hand U.S. prose that will remind more than one reader of Dos Passes. Her propaganda will propagate few proselytes, but her winged words should strike home to even a carapacic conservative...
...husbands. When they do, the experiment often turns out to be a flop. A more dangerously intimate observer than even a valet, a wife with the best will in the world is likely to detract more than she adds to a man's reputation. But now & again, in spite of its stained-glass windows, a widow's memorial lets in an occasional shaft of light on the human figure within. Like Frieda Lawrence's book on her late great husband (Not I, but the Wind; TIME, Oct. 8, 1934), Dorothy Cheston Bennett's intimate portrait...
...spite of the disparity of their ages and accomplishments, Dorothy was too independent a character to let Bennett regulate her, intimates that she domesticated him more than he revised her. They never agreed on the subject of her intuition. On one occasion he stubbornly gambled away 1,000 francs in an effort to show her that her hunch about a certain number was nonsense. Though he never succeeded in weaning her from unpunctual habits, his husbandly summation was a nutshell masterpiece: "I regard non-punctuality as bad manners. I don't expect you to be punctual; I know...