Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whipsaw the hero and heroine are kept out of the same bed because Tracy believes Miss Loy is involved in a robbery, and it is therefore his duty to treat her as a Federal operative must treat any subject under surveillance; because Miss Loy knows that Tracy, in spite of his pose as a fellow criminal, is really a sleuth. Dialog wavers back & forth between flippant, Grade A exchanges between Miss Loy and Tracy, and sad C-minus stretches where the crooks make remarks like, "We're hep to the whole layout...
...spite of the strained feeling between the rivals, a remarkable quality of sportsmanship was evinced by the Standishites. When the ranks of the Gorites became thinned by desertion, their rivals actually lent two fielders so that the game could be finished...
...Harvard," he claimed, "is the only large college in the East at which I have not spoken. A special effort, indeed, seems to have been made to keep me away. It is pretty exclusive, I suppose, and is more interested in higher things. In spite of that, however, God bless Harvard and the CRIMSON...
...captivity, are always scary. This time they are part of a circus, and Wallace Beery is their trainer. When Cooper like Beery, then the beasts are completely submissive. But when he doesn't, then the tigers rage and smart at Wallace and bite his arms off! But in spite of the naiveties, you'll be in uncomfortable suspense when the vicious cats are turned into the same cage with Wallace. In fact, wipe off that cynical smile; you'll probably enjoy the whole picture...
There's no use, of course, in trying to solve the crime before Charlie does; the reels are stacked against you. But just the same we predict that you will be making all sorts of fantastic guesses. For the picture absorbs you in spite of yourself. You'll probably even play so completely into Mr. Chan's hands as to reproach him when he's merely being clever...