Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hills. Passions Spin the Plot finds him. a gangling youth of 19, on his way to Wasatch College in Salt Lake City. Though college has always been his dream of escape from the poverty-ridden nightmare of farm life. Vridar is very homesick. At first college seems wonderful, in spite of the grimy furnace room he inhabits, the scarecrow clothes he has to wear, the scanty food and few friends. Gradually his high idealism is undermined and he begins to see college as a picture of an unjust and meaningless world outside. "Forenoon" McClintock, a rapscallion fellow-roomer in Vridar...
Still very much in the saddle in spite of reports that he would soon retire from NRA, ham-handed General Johnson with oldtime cavalry gusto dismissed Pittsburgh's NRAdministrator, John S. Fisher. Mr. Fisher was no mere local booster who had climbed on the Recovery bandwagon, but once (1927-30) Pennsylvania's Republican Governor. He had made a speech in which he criticized NRA for making "no provisions for financing the load of rising costs which it necessarily placed on producer and consumer." When General Johnson heard this he dispatched a curt six-line letter demanding Mr. Fisher...
...Health are to say the least most elightening. In examining the various brands of whiskey offered to the public in New York City, he has found that a large number have little or no right to be called whiskey inasmuch as they have been cut about ten times. In spite of the fact that those concoctions are composed for the most part of a cheap grade of alcohol they sell for the perfectly outrageous price of two and a half or three dollars a quart, when the price of straight whiskey delivered to the retailer exclusive of taxes...
...spite of the fact that the quieter side of life seems neglected in favor of the more progressive angles, this collection of articles is indeed extremely enjoyable and of interest in that it presents America through eyes which heretofore have seldom had a chance of vision...
...School at 2 o'clock in the Boston Garden. Starting in the forward line will be Leo A. Ecker at left wing, George S. Ford at center, and Louis B. Carr at right. James N. Kidder will hold which contains a sprinkling of well-known preparatory school stars. In spite of the fact that the team has a nucleus of men who have done well in school hockey, the exceptional warm winter last year with only four days of good out door ice handicaps the team according to Coach Clark Hodder '25. Many men although good potential material...