Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protest against the presence of Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl '09, Hitler's publicity agent, at the exercises being held then. The seven freed by Governor Ely yesterday had been sentenced to six months hard labor at the Middlesex House of Correction and fined $20 each on October 23, in spite of pleas for clemency on the part of Harvard students, and of President Conant himself...
...Although the scene is London's Chinatown, his New-Yorkese is explained by having him a transplanted U.S. under-worldling. The plot concerns his love for Toni (Jean Parker) whom he protects when a constable wants to arrest her for stealing a watch; a love that persists in spite of her almost immediate attachment to the young proprietor of a dog store whom she meets while taking a walk. The threat to these somewhat incredible proceedings is supplied by Miss Wong, Raft's Chinese sweetheart. If it is not much of a threat the fault is less hers...
...spite of a more imposing preliminary season record, the Harvard Freshman football team lost their objective game to Yale Freshman 13 to 0 at New Haven last Saturday. Stuart went over for a touchdown for Harvard soon after the first Yale score only to have the play recalled and a penalty inflicted. Captain Oakes, who has been on the side lines since the Dartmouth, game with a broken wrist, entered at the last minute to earn his numerals...
...spite of the fact that 14 men were on the injury list of the Freshman squad Thursday, the 1938 team is favored to beat Yale today in the Bowl. Coach Gallagher will take 30 men down, starting at 9 o'clock this morning. He predicts a close game, since the Yale team has shown great improvement in the last few weeks, and always makes a better showing against Harvard than against its previous opponents. The Crimson aggregation has a much more impressive record for the season, having lost only to the Jayvees 13-9, while the Eli first year...
...went back to Denmark last summer, and in spite of the many changes there are since I last saw it, I would have liked to stay there. But then sometimes I feel pretty well off here at Harvard, even though it is hard to support a wife and family of five children. I make a few singles on the side each year to carry me over...