Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Copies of this were snapped up by spite-loving socialites who got for their money advice on acquiring a honeyish Baltimore drawl and the aptitude to "listen and ask questions hesitatingly, girlishly, charmingly." Then: "Languidly take it easy, saving up strength for the 'concentration moments' when the man is around...
...walking around and babbling to himself, oblivious of the dead and dying, even oblivious of the dagger-like sliver of steel that stuck out of his streaming wrist; a pretty girl with her forehead laid open, trying hopelessly to crawl out of a ditch in spite of her smashed hip. A first-class massacre of that sort is only a question of scale and numbers...
...impressed by her apparent flippancy, he marries, instead, her sister Kay (Gail Patrick) and struggles valiantly to help both girls through the hard times that follow their bankrupt father's suicide. Miss Lupino goes to work for a German milliner (Joseph Cawthorn) and proceeds to demonstrate that, in spite of her smart talk, she is the one he should have picked...
Accent on Youth (Paramount). Play wright Samson Raphaelson balanced this fragile triangle on Broadway for many weeks in spite of its perilous distribution of sympathy in favor of middle-age against youth. As a cinema it enlists the aid of Sylvia Sidney and Herbert Marshall, whose air of romantic maturity is accentuated by powdered temples, spectacles, and a polite, nostalgic way of asking for a kiss. Miss Sidney first becomes his leading lady (he is a playwright ) when getting fired as his secretary prods her into a love avowal, and ends as his fiancee after an interlude with Philip Reed...
...helped St. Paul elect a reform Mayor who appointed as Commissioner of Public Safety Henry Edward ("Ned") Warren, a conscientious citizen who came fresh to politics from his automobile salesroom. Commissioner Warren wanted to import Alexander Jamie of Chicago's old "Secret Six" organization as police chief. In spite of Jamie's record as a onetime Federal sleuth who gave criminal Chicago a wash behind the ears, St. Paul's city fathers balked at bringing in an outsider. So Commissioner Warren appointed as St. Paul's Chief of Police a lifelong friend named Michael Joseph Culligan...