Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...catch hold of something I fall to the floor. Sometimes I faint. I break into a cold clammy sweat. I feel nauseated. And, doctor, I can't help vomiting. These attacks have been coming over me more frequently. I used to be able to hear perfectly clearly in spite of the buzzing in my ears. But now I am getting deaf. And, doctor, I'm afraid I'm going...
...tomorrow we attack this world's record of $44,000. We hope to sell $50,000. . . . It's really absurd to expect we can accomplish this task. It means selling 250 sets an hour for eight hours?four sets every minute?one set every 14 seconds. But, in spite of its absurdity, we're going to try. For that record is held in Los Angeles and what Los Angeles can do San Francisco can do better. At least that's the way our college boys and our football teams figure. They've done...
Veblen was neither a clubbable nor an attractive man (he never called any of his friends by their first names), but in spite of his poverty, his rawboned, stoop-shouldered, ungainly appearance, women liked him. He was twice married, twice had to resign a teaching post because of scandalous rumors. On the second occasion, when friends warned him of impending trouble, Veblen fatalistically replied: "What is one to do if the woman moves in on you?" This philosophic detachment was typical of him. He was accustomed to giving all his students the same low grade, never checked their attendance, seldom...
...another in Death Takes a Holiday (1930-31). He swung a third in Mary of Scotland (1934). His melancholy face with its skin stretched across the cheekbones like rawhide on a saddle frame, his clipped speech and full-stopped voice make him ideal for impersonating tragic historical figures. In spite of a tilted, completely un-Washingtonian nose, he admirably conveys an entirely credible portrait of the great general's sombre personality...
Rather than show any emotion, "Brute" Howell covered his face with his hands and staggered through the door. Sympathetic hands patted him gently on the shoulder as he p a s s e d. Howell was overwhelmed with feeling in spite of himself...