Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handsome rascal, Warmelo. Tina watches Hanny's miseries, her mother's maneuvers with widening, saddening eyes. Suddenly she is in love herself. When Alf Ten Berge takes her out on the dunes, tries to consummate their love, she is terrified, runs home. Alf marries another girl for spite...
...actor, a little older than she, who can toss back the conversational ball faster than she can throw. The children are mutually entranced, and the rest of their story follows their odd vagaries in that trance. In spite of all their elders' iron efforts to separate them they, like bits of quicksilver, run together again. After a bevy of tender, and to their elders, scandalous escapades, during one of which they even manage to spend an innocent night together in an empty house; after Halcyon turns her hand to the drama, and Eden makes a name acting...
Stalin: You exaggerate. We have no special respect for everything American. But we respect American efficiency m everything?in industry, in technique, in literature, in life. . . . Among the Americans there are many sound persons physically and mentally, sound in their approach to work, to action. ... In spite of the fact that America is a highly advanced capitalist land, the customs of industry, the habits of production contain something of democracy, which you cannot say of the old European capitalist lands, where the arrogant spirit of feudal aristocracy still survives...
...before the opening gavel Presidential Rule No. 7 (TIME, November 24, 1930) was observed when White House Physician Joel Thompson Boone announced: "Our present national leadership is bearing a greater strain than ever was the portion of any other President. Thank God, our President is a physical rarity. In spite of the incomparable burdens he is bearing. President Hoover is in excellent health...
...Class of 1932 shows a decided preference for business pursuits in spite of the economic depression, vocational preferences expressed in the newly-issued Senior Album reveal. Two hundred and two members of the graduating class intend to take positions in the ranks of business, while the legal profession, next in line, will claim 116. Medicine and teaching with 89 and 75 respectively rank third and fourth. A large part of the class, numbering 171, has not as yet decided on a definite occupation...