Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With beds crowded into every corner, with new patients arriving even before the old ones had been properly sterilized for their return to the outside world, the work was endless. Yet no errand was too trivial for their attention, and in spite of endless difficulties due to overcrowding, they managed to make their restless patients comfortable and cheerful...
Though it has apparently not been seen on the stage since 1870, it was a great success when first produced in 1696, and continued so during the 18th century. Vanbrugh wrote it, he remarked, to divert the wits of the town "and make them forget their spleen in spite of their wives and taxes...
...Little Flower drew different conclusions as to the worth of the Roosevelt Administration at the halfway mark. "The big achievement of the last two years is the great change in the thinking of the country,'' declared Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. ''I also think that in spite of criticism the administration of relief has been a great achievement." Included in the list of what she considered her husband's accomplishments: the Banking Bill, Tennessee Valley Authority ("a decided accomplishment"), CCC ("a grand thing"), subsistence homesteads. ("I do not agree with those who think...
...play the desperate game which the New Deal had forced upon the 79-year-old onetime (1921-32) Secretary of the Treasury. The New Deal's stake: $139,045 and the reputation of its Attorney General Homer Stillé Cummings, charged with forcing the game for personal spite and political advantage. Mr. Mellon's stake: $3,075,103 and his reputation as an honest man and loyal public servant...
...That no instruction in play-writing is to be had in spite of the fraudulent assertions of the Department of English...