Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boast that its peaks are as high from base level as any in the Rockies, point out that only from an air plane has anyone seen sections of its deep wilderness. Nobody boasts that it is the land from which the Cherokee Nation was driven in 1836-39, in spite of Andrew Jackson's promises, when Georgians thought they had found gold in the deep Valley of the Noonday...
...home at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, four miles from Eastport, Me., which he visited for the first time since the shock of its cold waters brought on his paralysis twelve years ago. There, his most serious guest was Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, come to report that in spite of all his efforts, the Geneva Arms Conference had adjourned to October. Its 14-year record of accomplishment still o, many pronounced the Conference a dead fish. But President Roosevelt, bland, told a Campobello crowd: "I am glad to have Norman Davis here with me. He can go back...
...firm and to marry Ainsley's nice but not very attractive daughter Catherine. Carr was a success in a business way, but before he was old enough to realize his other duty he fell desperately in love with Cordelia, daughter of his father's worst enemy. In spite of unanimous opposition they married and were forgiven, but Carr lost his chance of a fortune. He prospered, however, and when old Mr. Ainsley died, Carr was managing the firm and making a pretty penny for Catherine, who had inherited a controlling interest. All might have been well with Carr...
...dispense with the luxury of education for the bare essentials of living. It is deplorable that poor and in some cases dishonest municipal financing, which was put to the acid test by the depression, had deprived many instructors of their pay and slashed salaries thirty per cent. In spite of the obstacles of the times and the fact that more than one hundred schools lost money last year, Harvard among them, only two have closed their doors. Over a long period of time summer education has justified its existence; it is only unfortunate that such a valuable adjunct to progress...
Author Woodward says, &"The writing of novels is a form of human activity that requires neither knowledge nor experience and only a small amount of native talent, for its successful accomplishment.&" It is not surprising, therefore, that his own novels are not very good. But in spite of its author's cynical bluster and insensitive awkwardness, Evelyn Prentice slowly pulls itself together into a ponderous but dramatic tale...