Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami jamboree he has also showed his displeasure with the American Veterans Association and the National Economy League because of their efforts to maintain the credit of the United States by bridling the porkbarrelism which these professed patriots wish to engage in to such an almost unlimited extent. In spite of their Americanism, which they loudly and self-righteously proclaim, the Legionaires would like to see the money in the Treasury portioned out to them in a manner more befitting a Roman holiday, than the efforts of a grateful government to give relief to its deserving and American protectors...
...Religion) All this was most bewildering to that great mass of impressionable Midwestern settlers in Southern California.* Southern California is a bourgeois paradise. Few sections of the U. S. offer cheaper food and housing. It is the perfect setting for Utopia. And EPIC is nothing if not Utopian. In spite of the revelations about Mr. Sinclair's past beliefs, therefore, political observers last week were ready to concede him Los Angeles and the Southern part of the State, look to hard-headed San Francisco and the conservative north for Merriam strength. "Poor Relation." Prime epithet used against Upton Sinclair...
...pages of the CRIMSON itself; this year it appears with a "foreword" by Dolmar Leighton, '19, Dean of Freshmen. Just why the term "confidential" is retained is not clear. Nor is it clear that such a pamphlet, published under such auspices, can be regarded as "unofficial," in spite of its disclaimer to that effect. Of the 45 courses described and judged, about fifteen are commended under the caption "Go." while the other thirty are condemned in varying degrees of severity under the captions "Caution" and "Stop." The comment refers to the instructors freely by name, and it is suggested that...
...spite of all these rules, it seems as though the student morals were not as high as they are today for there are records of men being dismissed for stealing firewood with which to break windows, stealing money, and carrying the answers to the first fifteen problems of the Algebra examination into the examination with him. In defense of the last, the student claimed that it was the accepted custom except for the first fifteen students who were not supposed to carry the answers. But the culprits were all re-admitted after writing a series of abject apologies, because...
...pictures made to follow the book even fairly closely, "The Count of Monte Cristo" as a film does a welcome justice to Dumas. In spite of the whispered query of the garrulous lady who came in during the prison scene, sat down behind your reviewer and with a sigh asked if this picture had anything to do with Dane's Inforno, the work of newcomer Robert Donat as Edmund Dante was refreshingly outstanding. Elissa Landi is as beautiful as ever though not very much in evidence...