Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywooding Hollywood is the keynote of the brilliant musical opening at the Shubert. "Stars in Your Eyes," book by J. P. McEvoy, in spite of its cowboy and the lady type of plot, really comes from behind spectacular scenery changing and lighting to give thoroughly enjoyable entertainment...
Britons who stayed tuned in after "Calling All Dogs" heard the Archbishop of Canterbury deliver a gloomy sermon, saying: "In the present condition of the disordered world, we are beholding judgment day. . . . In spite of all the hopes of progress, are these not signs of a return to the dark ages...
Dropping the first three light weight beats, the wrestlers were never able to overcome the Bengal lead in spite of the fact Bill Daughaday and "Chief" Boston were able to throw their opponents. Throughout, the matches were closely contested, and three of them extended into overtime...
Sears said he was exhausted every evening from arguing politics in classes with his instructors and fellow students, and after classes, with his dormitory mates. When told that other Republicans were enrolled in the school, in spite of all indication, he declared: "Thank God, there's still hope for the world...
...past, and in spite of recurring "entanglement" with the continent of Europe, American public opinion as a whole has persisted in dreaming the roseate dream of isolation. Justly revolted by the power politics and recurring warfare of the old world, and profoundly desirous of a separate, peaceful life on this continent, they have thought and acted in terms of a fundamental division of the world. But while thus pleasantly immersed in eighteenth and early nineteenth century thinking, their nation grew into a major world power; and, except for a brief flurry of world-consciousness in 1920--denied expression by destructively...