Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Archipelago as in East Wapping. Maugham has made the feelings of his characters more important than their dress, the harrowed back-side of their minds more entrancing than their mundane comings and goings in the streets of Singapore; and, oddly enough, he has made the reader follow him, in spite of all the distractions introduced in the shape of Eastern colour and shifting sound...
...spite of all this, busty-wusty West has enough push to put it over satisfactorily, if you are only seeking an afternoon's entertainment. Her walk and her accent, for those who like them, are there. Even professors of ancient Gaelic and students of the Urdu verb forms will enjoy hearing her sing "I've found a new way to go to town," and lechery, after all, is always to the point. An excellent shot, which seems to give promise that the old girl can act, is that in which Mae shows her presents to a friend; you will...
Eleven per cent more graduates were placed by the School of Education last year than the year before, in spite of the fact that last year saw a drop of 58 per cent in the number of calls received, it was revealed by Dr. Fred C. Smith, Director of Placement of the School of Education. Dr. Smith stated that it was difficult to understand why this increase in placements took place, all records seem to show that teachers with the most thorough training are getting more and more any jobs which may exist...
...have read Ulysses once in its entirety and I have read those passages of which the Government particularly complains several times. . . . In Ulysses, in spite of its unusual frankness, I do not detect anywhere the leer of the sensualist. I hold therefore that it is not pornographic...
Many features of the N.R.A. are excellent: the recovery, Administration training, working hours, thereby eliminating the sweat shop, it nationalizes labor legislation, it abolishes child labor and annual it helps destroy unfair competitive practices. But in spite of all these virtues, said Edward S. Mason, Associate Professor of Economics, in an interviwe with the CRIMSON, "I am decidedly to the N.R.A...