Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Solomon's success is particularly gratifying to his Lansing, Mich. friends (where he was permanent conductor of the local symphony immediately before going to Chicago) because in spite of their efforts, the local public was not astute enough to realize his worth, withholding the support necessary to keep him from slipping through its fingers...
...nearly six months the U. S. public has put up with Federal wage-hour regulation in spite of the Wage & Hour Law. Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews has been able to get wide compliance mainly because: 1) he is a reasonable man; 2) the Act's demands are modest (25? an hour, 44 hours a week); 3) the penalties are so stiff that Business had to try to conform to a miserably written statute. Last week Mr. Andrews, vexed just as much as Business by the bungled law, asked Congress to cure the worst defects. His chief proposals...
Ginger Rogers has glamor, acting ability and a pair of lyric legs. But her outstanding quality as a movie star is a frank and homegrown air which both U. S. and foreign audiences recognize as essentially American. In spite of her two marriages (moderate for Hollywood) she represents the American Girl, 1939 model-alert, friendly, energetic, elusive. Less eccentric than Carole Lombard, less worldly-wise than Myrna Loy, less impudent than Joan Blondell, she has a careless self-sufficiency which they lack. As a dancer, Ginger Rogers has been immensely improved by her association with Astaire, who works...
Thursday afternoon during a driving spring downpour, a smoothly functioning Maryland ten smashed through the defense of the team from the North to the score of 11-3. In spite of Maryland's large lead, Coach Skip Stahley was delighted to see his men show considerable improvement over their first showing in Philadelphia...
Skip Stahley, expressing optimism in spite of his squad's luck of outdoor practice, has chosen a tentative lineup, which includes George Hanford at goal; Ralph Livingston, point; Ben Wilcox, coverpoint; Norm Blotner, first defense; Jim Doughty, second defense, Jess Willard, center; Pete Zouck, second attack; Doug Anderson, first attack; Hank Ricckeu, out home; and Captain Phil Hammond at in home...