Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holders of millions of dollars of Straus Bonds were bitterly delighted, for many of their bonds have gone into default and Straus & Co. folded up last spring. All they remembered was that they had lost money in spite of Straus & Co.'s protestations of conservatism and good faith. When Nick Roberts came out of Tombs Court under $5,000 bail, a man shouted, "Here, do you want one?" and threw a handful of bonds...
Gertrude Stein hates to be called an expatriate, in spite of the fact that she has lived most of her adult life in France and seems to be settled there. Born in Allegheny, Pa. (then a suburb of Pittsburgh) "of a very respectable middle class family" of German Jews, she was taken abroad at an early age, spent her youth in California and Baltimore. At Radcliffe she studied under Psychologist William James, was one of his star pupils. At the final examination in his course she turned in a blank paper, with a note explaining that she did not feel...
...scanty draperies and usually accompanied by gourds or tom-tom alone, the Bahama troupe shifted abruptly from sober interpretations of spirituals to the frankly orgiastic frenzy of native Bahaman dances. Against the high yellow paling which divided them from the orchestra their shadows were enormous and fantastic. But in spite of claims that their dances were independent of Harlem influence, the Bahaman dancers displayed merely conventional abandon, little rhythm and no reason...
...streets, under the elevated tracks. Later she studied with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and briefly in the Isadora Duncan and Fokine schools. In 1929 she was the only dancer at Austria's Salzburg Festival, startled sedate Europeans by her renditions of jazz and Negro spirituals. In spite of her formal training, Tamiris considers herself largely self-schooled, likes to think of her dancing as part of an indigenous U. S. culture...
...FAULT OF ANGELS-Paul Horgan -Harper ($2.50). In spite of strong indications to the contrary, the U. S. still believes that Culture is a hot-house growth and can be fertilized with filthy lucre. When a tycoon turns angel and takes under his wing the perishable eggs of Art, many an ugly duckling, many a dubious chick, come squawking in to get a share of the pickings. The late Kodak tycoon, George Eastman, brooded to such good purpose that he hatched some fine, large eggs. In The Fault of Angels Author Horgan tells a story whose background is the Eastman...