Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subjects must make even the Nazis laugh. Professor Wiener does his intelligence no credit if he thinks those who run Germany are fools. Let him call them flends if he will, but not fools. They know exactly what they want (Regard--Oh, Democracy!) and the chances are, that in spite of the nervous French and the nervous Jews, they will get it. In History, is or is it not that that counts...
...Argyrol made Dr. Barnes his millions and Art his fame. His museum in Philadelphia is surrounded by a 10ft. spite fence, is opened only to close friends or students with top-notch credentials. The late Paul Guillaume, French art dealer, picked out and bought most of the Barnes Impressionist and Surrealist pictures. Today if Dr. Barnes singles out for his collection one unknown painter, that artist's reputation is supposed to be made. Dealers, therefore, treat him with kid gloves. Less scared of him is able, black-haired Belle da Costa Greene, who once closed the doors...
...story, about the convict Magwitch and his life-long feud with the blackguard who stole his wife, is blurred by the fact that Magwitch never seems quite sure whether he is villain or hero. In addition to this, the characters have names like Pocket, Jaggers, Gargery and Pumblechook. In spite of all these eccentricities. Great Expectations is superb cinema entertainment. It should go a long way toward enlarging even further the prestige of Charles Dickens who has lately become the most fashionable author in Hollywood...
Coach Earl H. (Red) Blaik brings his undefeated, untied, and unscored-on gridiron warriors to Cambridge today but in spite of the top heavy odds on the Green, the new Dartmouth mentor who was signed last fall in an attempt to lift the Big Green out of the football depths into which it had fallen for the past few years is not at all optimistic regarding this contest. Although heralded as one of the strongest teams in the East, the fact remains that when the "New Deal" eleven trots out on the field for the kickoff today it will...
...American Liberty League are were to see a good many innovations closely resembling one or another of those things they call un-American. It does not appear that the United States of 1934 can be run in the same manner as the United States of 1789, in spite of the nostalgia of those three associations for those good old days. Of course the people of their ilk might step in and take control; but that would be fascism or something like it and not very close to the days of 1789. Not even Franklin Roosevelt or Herbert Hooever or Upton...