Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prophetic. Said he: "If any action taken can in the light of hindsight be termed 'errors of judgment.' clearly they were without negligence or culpability. This disaster is part of the price which must inevitably be paid in the development of any new and hazardous art. ... In spite of all the testimony the court has heard it would appear that the cause must ever remain in the realm of conjecture." Meanwhile the joint Congressional committee of investigation went to Akron to begin hearings. Sunnyvale, Forty miles south of San Francisco in the orchard land of the Santa Clara...
...life she hated. When Olly felt misunderstood, Jen made him understand that he was not. When the Janowskis settled their squalling Polish brood on a neighboring farm, it was Jen's tolerance that kept the Shaw mind open until Stan Janowski proved his worth as a farmer. In spite of Jen's impregnable excellence Authoress Carroll makes her such an attractive character that finally even skeptical readers will agree with the Yankee Shaw family that if Jen wants to marry a Pole, that will be all right with them. The Author, like her heroine, has "never wished...
...spite of the fact that Coach Cariss has the best fielding team in the League, the best individual batter in Powel, and a moundsman who fanned 14 Harvard batters in the first game of the season which the Crimson won, 3-1, the Pennsylvania team has only an average of 200 in the league having taken only one victory in five games played...
...tissue of lies." The net result of Diplomat Bullitt's activities was to furnish Republican Senators additional ammunition with which to de feat ratification of the peace treaty. But for speaking his mind he became a diplomatic outcast, with every Wilsonian Democrat ascribing his behavior to personal spite and sore-headedness...
...high rasping voice. Once at a Hollywood party he was found trying to write a story under a rug. His friend and immediate superior, Vice President Jack Warner, opposed Zanuck's resignation last week. Outsiders wondered whether President Harry Warner, ready to cut off his nose to spite his face, had cut off his head instead. Zanuck plans to produce 12 pictures a year with his new company. He will be paid $4,500 a week, 50% of the profits of his pictures and a $100,000 bonus before he starts work. Supervisor Ray Griffith, Story Editor Howard Smith...