Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guillotine Bluebeard Landru. All he could discover last week was that Judge Prince was quite dead before he was tied to the track, and that the original telephone message had come not from Dijon but from Paris. Raymond Prince, son of the murdered judge, cried bravely: "In spite of the terrible responsibility it involves, which may cost me my life, I am determined to tell all I know. I feel certain that this was a political crime. My proof is that my father on the day following his death was to have submitted a report concerning several important personalities whose...
Worcester first heard Edward Elgar's music but did little to encourage him. Nor did England, until after Europe had approved him. Nor did Edward Elgar's father, who, in spite of being the town's best organist, had to keep a music shop to eke out a living for his seven children. Elgar's early talent was extraordinary. He learned to play the organ by watching his father Sunday mornings, taught himself the bassoon well enough to play in local festivals. But Father Elgar was not impressed. He set the boy to work...
...Harvard 1937 track team emerged triumphant from its meet with Exeter Saturday by the score of 54 to 41, in spite of the valiant resistance of Captain Donovan of the Exeter team who captured four first places...
...repartee, except when the producer tries to inject sentimentality into it. As for the characterization, Clark Gable of course heads the list as the woman-hating reporter who drifts into the ways of love. Walter Connolly, as Mr. Andrews, does remarkably well. But Miss Colbert is convincing in spite of playing second fiddle to Mr. Gable and because her lines are inherently good. Most of the "local color" characters speak with a labored accent but are rather picturesque...
...plot in spite of numerous inconsistencies, is undeniably amusing and bears earmarks of originality. No time is lost in superfine introduction. In the first minute Elsie Andrews breaks with her millionaire father on the subject of matrimony, dives gracefully from the parental yacht and strikes out for shore with a fast crawl stroke. After cleverly dodging her father's detectives she leaves Miami via bus for New York to rejoin her lover. On the bus she meets Peter Warn, who after the typical Clark Gable show of insolence takes her under his protection. Then ensue several scenes at tourist camps...