Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Island of Cyprus to which they flew in a British R.A.F. plane and demanded that King Feisal stay in Bagdad to punish the guilty - whether Christian or Mohammedan. To the Irak Legation in London falcon-eyed King Feisal promptly cabled: "Although everything is normal now in Irak, and in spite of my broken health, I shall await the arrival of Sir Francis Humphrys in Bagdad, but there is no reason for further anxiety. Inform the British Government of the contents of my telegram...
With the transitional remark, "Why, it seems only yesterday . . ." tycoon and satellite become James Whitcomb Riley boys in a swimming hole. Then, "in no time at all he was president of the road," bullying the directors of Chicago & South Western Railway into buying a little road for spite. Then a flashback to his first trackwalking days, his courtship of prim, big-eyed Sally (Colleen Moore). Then a flash forward to his troubles with his spoiled collegian son at whose angry look he says, "Don't look at me that way, boy. You're giving away too much weight...
...Gilbert, a family friend whose son Owen is a playwright. When Owen returns home on vacation before the rehearsals of his new play, his mother tries to get him to give Lily a part. Lily suggests that he rewrite the play to do so. Eventually, in spite of Owen's passive obstruction, she manages to win the affections of Harvey, the hard-boiled director, and wriggles into the cast. When the play reaches New York, after a singularly hectic routine of rehearsals and road showings, Lily has stolen from the leading lady not only her role, but her fiance...
...their present wages and keep them out of any kind of labor organization. United Mine Workers' President John Llewellyn Lewis ringingly offered a union code. He argued his organization was the only stabilizing influence in an industry ruled by "the law of the jungle," that tycoons, "in spite of fluent lip service to the principles of the National Recovery Act," were taking a "narrow and indefensible attitude" toward its execution. Important mine operators who supported his code included Cleveland's Frank E. Taplin (North American Coal Corp.), Chicago's George Bates Harrington (Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal...
...particularly fortunate that such a free hand has been given to a man in whom even his political foes repose their confidence, and who has only the welfare of the country at heart. It is significant that in spite of our ever present yet ever-changing political and social diseases our national integrity has remained intact, and groups are willing to put aside lines of party and entrust their security to another for the sake of restoring our domestic prosperity and international prestige...