Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the U. S. fairly flocked last week with the pigeons of peace. In St. Paul, onetime Secretary of State Frank Billings ("Nervous Nellie") Kellogg, outraged because war was going on in Ethiopia in spite of the Kellogg-Briand Treaty, screwed up his face and shrilled into a microphone: "When Italy invaded Ethiopia . . . Italy violated a treaty with the U. S. and thus violated the supreme law of our land." In Washington President William Green of the American Federation of Labor puffed out his cheeks, bellowed over the air: "The passion for peace possessed by the workers of our country...
...faster than the United States, especially those countries, like England and France, which have retrenched,--countries which have been blessed with governments fearlessly patriotic and unpolitical. It may well be that even now in this country the great majority have begun to realize that the present recovery is in spite of administration policies, not because of them, and that without them we would now be much further along the Road of Recovery. In such a case, 1936 is still a closed book...
With all his clever and sometimes shady deals and in spite of the fact that his harem did finally bring his ruin. Solomon lives in the literature of the Bible as one of the most human, the wisest, and a God-fearing man. This son of David, son of Bath-sheba, even as his wise words, has become "a proverb and a byword among the people...
...could begrudge the band this trip, especially considering that its members, in spite of all the entertainment they afford, and all the spirit they arouse, each must contribute $10 dues, and must pay for their own costumes, even unto the last cleaning and pressing of the flannel trousers thereof...
...spite of the large turnout the head coach believes that many 1939 oarsmen have yet to report