Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unable to pay the bills, were too embarrassed to attend class and face the teacher, much as they needed his services? I suspect that even doctors are not so money-mad as some of their spokesmen appear to believe, and that most of them would render honest service in spite of a dependable stable income. Some of the most important contributions to medical science have been and are being made by salaried men and women...
...spite of their amiable creed 458 female Nazareth Baptists went out, cornered Sampson, tied him with ropes, marched him to a tree-bordered square in Verulam called The Place of Dancing. Chanting and dancing, they hacked Sampson with sticks, hoes, axes, poles, stones. Then they buried what was left of him under a ton of debris...
Dorgan expressed pity for Hicks for having "got off on the wrong slant in spite of his ancestry of 300 years," and said he would send the petition when completed to the University of Moscow, adding, "that's his place over there...
...exhaust all the relations and possible consequences of a deed," is, after all, fundamental to the plot. In Mr. Evans, this side of Hamlet is not absent, it is merely submerged; but it has so become indefinite that one is actually not convinced when he says "Oh cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!" Neither can one answer for him when he exclaims, "I do not know why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do'." It is perhaps significant that in Lacrtes one finds a man not vividly contrasting, but in many ways...
...Lord Chamberlain is exasperatingly hasty and foolish. Humor, too, enters into Mr. Graham's skillful portrayal, especially when the utmost is wrung from his interview (II-II) with the smooth, villainous King (Henry Edwards) and the sensual, light-witted Queen (Mady Christians). Only from the ghost, who--in spite of the effective lighting--falls between abstract ghostliness and the human wisdom and tenderness which Shakespeare intended, could more be asked. All in all, Maurice Evans' "Hamlet" is so good that, unanimously, the opening night audience agreed with his gracious acknowledgment of their prolonged applause: "I like to think that...