Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer to your other objection, that West Point has no three-year eligibility rule, is this; in spite of it, how many times have they managed to beat us in recent years? Yours truly, Eugene Du Bois...
...knew what was happening to him Lillian had him in a shrewdly compromising mess, his adored young wife had divorced him, and in a daze he had married Lillian. In the uneven battle that followed between Lillian and local society both sides scored some notable victories; at times, in spite of everything, your sympathies are with the outrageous redhead. When Lillian saw she was making no headway, like a good general she changed her tactics, wheedled her way to Manhattan and went after a real millionaire. She got him. By the time you take leave of her you have...
Playing the first game of the season, the Harvard freshmen were held by a strong Andover team to a scoreless tie on Saturday. In spite of the fact that the freshmen were favored to win, they only managed to threaten the schoolboys once, when the ball was worked up to the 10-yard line mainly through the efforts of Locke, who was playing at left half back, but then was lost on downs...
American audiences in general and Mae West's audiences in particular have a unique and proverbial capacity for smut. As Mr. Krutch pointed out, this capacity is also shared by adolescents. Mr. Smoot of Utah probably knows more about pornographic literature than any living American, or European. However, in spite of this hearty endorsement, it cannot be repeated too often that this capacity and this knowledge is not a prime requisite for holiness. Hunger, not holiness, must be the explanation of this strange preoccupation with sex in its cruder forms...
...game against a heavy Huntington School team yesterday afternoon at the Huntington field. The lightweight team, in the second year of its existence, managed by its alertness and efficient tackling while on the defense, to keep the schoolboys from making any long gains and from scoring, in spite of the fact that every man on the Harvard team was outweighed by 15 pounds. On the offensive, however, the 150's found it impossible to make any gains through the heavy Huntington line, and it was only when a Huntington line, and kick was blocked and the ball recovered...