Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ladies who can count their medals few can finger so many that ring true as Selma Lagerlöf (pronounced Lahgerlef). A Swede who, in spite of international temptations, has remained stoutly Scandinavian, she has won her country's Nobel Prize (1909) without the slightest implication of local favoritism. She has written not only an international classic for children (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils) but an international classic for grown-ups (The Ring of the Löwenskölds). She is one of those rare writers whose flavor is not spoiled by translation. And at 76 she remains...
...waiting game, an attitude of tolerance in spite of the dismal outlook, is the best course of action for the disappointed Freshman to adopt. Many students now accepted for the Houses will not occupy their appointed places next fall. The significant group of "dropped" Freshmen; the large numbers who will not return for scholastic, financial, or personal reasons; the annual Sophomore exodus to the pseudo-swank of the now decrepit Gold Coast; all of these are good insurance that the bars will be raised to many before September arrives...
...spite of the fact that the Asiatic Fleet makes an annual courtesy call on some Japanese city every year, U. S. pacifists still retained their gloomy forebodings, recalled that the Maine's ill-fated "courtesy call" at Havana in 1898 precipitated the Spanish...
Traveling Saleslady (Warner) briskly relates the. adventures, commercial and romantic, of a young woman (Joan Blondell) who, to spite her father for not giving her a job in his tooth paste company, . goes on the road for his rival selling dentifrice with liquor flavors. Complicated principally by the necessity for outwitting her father's star salesman (William Gargan) while she falls in love with him, Angela Twitchell's career reaches its peak when, at a Chicago drug convention, she sees to it that her rival and fiance arrives late in a plane whose pilot she has hired...
...Andrews denied the Drake charges, calling the whole thing a case of spite work instigated by discharged employes and disgruntled dealers. And he cracked back at a group of Chicago distributors with an injunction restraining their anti-Andrews activities. In Detroit, in a lightning move, he dismissed all office employes, "executive and otherwise," by the simple method of bolting the Hupp doors one morning last week before the employes turned up for work...