Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt had just been informed by Julian L. Coolidge '95, Master of Lowell House, that the letter asking him if he would permit the trouble-some Lowell House bells to be named for him, was an undergraduate prank. Consenting to the publication of the correspondence, he wired: "In spite of it all, the next time I go to Cambridge, I propose to listen to those bells...
Contact with the "ideas" behind the Chinese Revolution made Sheean into a sort of Bruce Lockhart, both onlooker and participant. Unable, in spite of Borodin and Rayna, to make up his mind about Communism, Sheean wavered. But he began to take a hand in the processes of history, attempted to bring T. V. Soong, brother of Madame Sun Yatsen, from Shanghai to Hankow, offered to smuggle Fanny Borodin out of Peking. No longer the impassive newshawk, Sheean, when he covered the Jewish-Arab conflict in the Holy Land, broke down completely, took sides violently, and learned conclusively that...
...become and be a good President simply by sitting down behind the Presidential desk, while another man would not be a good President in spite of the elaborate (and expensive, you must admit) inauguration that put him into office...
...spite of a weak play, Elizabeth Bergner is assured full houses for the twelve weeks she will be in Manhattan. The sheer fresh artistry of an actress who uses hands, hair, feet, arms, her whole body to form pantomimic patterns, supplementing a voice which is understandable even when inarticulate, sent first-nighters at Escape Me Never! to their feet yelling "Bravo...
...knowledge of psychotherapy and osteopathy with the perfect bedside manner. Scores take to his simple belief that a little of God is in every man. With this magic, Zimri wins over an important industrialist, the Danubia youth movement, a onetime mistress of the Grand Elector, a leading journalist. In spite of this backing, the Messiah sins against the omnipotent State. Tried for sedition, he is acquitted only to be killed by an enraged urban mob that believes he is hindering the coming war with Italy. The finale is fittingly ironic...