Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keaton, is an attraction abroad where people cannot understand what either one is talking about. In this picture, misinterpreting radio reports of the election, Durante and Keaton purchase a brewery in the delusion that their enterprise is legal. Fortunately they are so incompetent that they make near beer in spite of themselves; when arrested, they are immediately set free. By acquiring an experienced braumeister, they are soon in dangerous rivalry with racketeers. They cap their misdemeanors by getting a whole town so sodden that when federal agents raid the brewery again, no evidence is left. What! No Beer? is certainly...
...spite of all murmuring, the chemistry bureaucrats will continue on their way. The method has the great advantage of taking trouble off the shoulders of the faculty, and of conserving time. In this respect, it is a plan which might well be followed by other sections of the University, where no exam is ever graded on time, and where the rule is made to fit the case as it arises, with consequent loss of time and money. Sentimental lovers of the calm and gentle may grumble, and cling to their outworn ways; the cold, gem-like flame that animation...
...spite of the fact that the budget has had to be cut over 18 percent, the Council apparently sees no reason why it should not continue to expend a total of $140 this year for the postage and printing of balloting cards which experience has shown less than half the class respond to. Out of the 760 ballots sent out last year to members of the Class of 1933, only 372 were returned. If there were ever an appropriate moment to abolish such an outworn system, if only for economy's sake, it is the present. The Council has refused...
...spite of the fact that election expenses for both Sophomore and Junior classes amounts to but$140 a year, the Council considered the matter sufficiently important, in view of its greatly reduced budget, to discuss all sides of the question...
Before Claire saw what was going on, her grandmother had fixed up for her a mariage de convenance with a neighboring landowner's son, Antoine. Antoine and Claire hit it off like cat & dog. When he went through the form of proposing to her she accepted, just to spite him. Through an amusing series of mishaps they were mutually persuaded that they loved each other and would get married after all, in spite of their families' approval...