Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of his spectacular name, he has sponsored no radical legislation, has sought no spotlight. In Washington he and his wife live down by the Union Station in the Capitol Park Hotel. He acts and dresses like any ordinary businessman, smokes his pipe incessantly, tends quietly and fairly ably to his business as a legislator. His new tax proposals show conclusively that he is no longer bent on "soaking the rich...
...spite of the fact that the team suffered from the loss of Henry M. Adlis who was counted on to strengthen the guard posts, his shoes were capably filled by Henry C. Munroe and Charles C. Gilbson. High-scorer for the home five was Leavitt S. White...
...spite of their dissimilarity the two got along fairly well till one day van Gogh suggested in all seriousness that they paint pictures together, each contributing the thing he was best at. Gauguin laughed all the way to the town brothel. There one of the girls told van Gogh that if he could not give her a five-franc piece for a Christmas present he might at least make her a gift of one of his big lop-ears. Next day, with no apparent provocation, van Gogh hurled an absinthe glass at Gauguin. The day following, he left a parcel...
Twenty-four Lowell House members have been selected to constitute the cast of "Swastika und Veritas," the musical pageant to be presented Wednesday evening in the Lowell House dining room. The performance is part of the celebration in honor of the seventy-seventh birthday of President-Emeritus Lowell. In spite of the petition of the House members for his presence, Mr. Lowell has declined the invitation to attend the function. Dinner will be served at 6 o'clock, instead of at 7 o'clock, as it was previously announced...
...Laidler concluded with the statement that he thought that in spite of the N.R.A. the monopoly movement would continue...