Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take a special interest. They may break down or stop. Once, to my surprise and dismay, I was dropped in a lift; another time a supposedly foolproof stamping machine ejected 40 unstamped letters for my benefit. The threads of looms at times break as I approach them, but, in spite of these odd occurrences, I am glad that employers are ready to welcome me in their midst...
...painter of the city is Reginald Marsh who was born 36 years ago to Muralist Fred Dana Marsh in Paris. As a tousle-headed boy (he is now almost bald) he went to Lawrenceville, later to Yale. In spite of his very proper education, Artist Marsh thinks "well bred people are no fun to paint," haunts Manhattan subways, public beaches, waterfronts, burlesque theatres for his subjects. The Metropolitan and Whitney Museums thought enough of his work to purchase examples...
...Sheeler. Commissioned by Edsel Ford in 1927 to do a series of paintings of the Ford River Rouge plant, Painter Sheele turned out a series of meticulous, exact canvases that in black and white reproductions are almost indistinguishable from Photographer Sheeler's excellent camera studies of similar subjects. In spite of objecting to his photographic technique, most critics allow Sheeler a top place among U. S. painters of industrial scenes. Michigan's nearest approach to catching the U. S. scene in paint is a Flint school of artists led by Jaroslav Brozik which applies to industrial themes an impressionistic manner...
...team is continuing a season which so far has started favorably in spite of the 3-2 defeat inflicted by Mt. St. Charles last Saturday night. In the first game of the season the Freshmen decisively defeated Framingham High by a score...
...which there was an unaccountable surfeit of gooseberry desserts and one unaccountably incorrect guest. Poor dear old-fashioned Daisy suspected her daughter Terry of an ineffable sin with one of her oldest friends, and she went about allaying her frightful suspicions in the only way she knew. In spite of the gooseberries everything seemed to be coming out all right when Terry's tongue slipped. That set gossip wagging. Daisy might have shut her ears to the gossip but when she was assailed by a friendly but blackmailing social-climber, she knew the fat was in the fire. She collapsed...