Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother George McClelland Reynolds, 67, who lately retired into the position of chairman of the executive committee. La Salle Street recalled old rumors that Arthur Reynolds had quarreled with the directors but he insisted: "There is nothing to be read between the lines about my resignation. ... I resigned in spite of the fact that the directors urged me to stay. ... I am leaving the bank because of impaired hearing. . . . The dampness of the climate here affects my ears...
...overthrow of the United States government, unable to be legally deported, held in a hospital having contracted tuberculosis at the immigration prison, and what is of more importance-held by an immigration commissioner who has it in her power to recommend release but who refuses to do so in spite of the insistent and ever increasing demands of not only the members of the textile union but of every class of society. Failure on the part of Secretary Doak to ameliorate this condition, will bring Miss Berkman's hunger strike on May 8, making the case national and forcing students...
...Edith Berkman we have a concrete example of economic tendencies in our own country. By its nearness is arising an opportunity or rather a demand for students to take a stand. Will it be for enlightened communism, in spite of cynical ideas about the childishness of a hunger strike, or will it be for a support of capitalism even to the degradation of United States democratic principles? The Radcliffe Daily...
...elements of the building world . . . are being brought together. The leader . . . will be the Architect." As it appears from within the profession, feeble indeed seem to be our own efforts toward an integration of our work with that of contractors, manufacturers, investors, etc., though very great the necessity. In spite of the fact that, as a professional body we are ultraconservative, self-effacing and individualistic at heart, I trust we shall emerge as the leaders...
...spite of its caustic critics the advertising industry continues to poison its own wells. The latest example of the inept bogus is a telegram from the Realsilk Hosiery Company to Mr. Sinclair Lewis, published in facsimile in the New Republic. The advertiser offered Mr. Lewis four hundred and fifty dollars and the honor of being included in a series of "dignified advertisements" indorsing silk socks, to which Messers Floyd Gibbous, James Montgomery Flagg, and George Ade had lent their names and faces. The novelist's only duty was to give his photograph and approve the copy; one suspects that...