Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great native powers, and Little Women as a work of genuine social and literary influence, Miss Anthony with gentle strokes traces Louisa Alcott's progress from a high-spirited tomboy to a hardworking old maid. The impression of a frustrated and unhappy life is communicated almost in spite of her efforts. In Louisa's revolt against her father's unpracticality, she set herself to make money. She got her money and her popular success but none of the intellectual following she deserved and needed. At 56 her nerves and health collapsed. Shut away in a darkened house...
...handed his valise to the porter. Examinations weren't so bad after all, be thought, but the best thing about them was their end. Might as well slip into the diner now, before it gets crowded, and get a bite to eat. Hmm! Not very hungry though, in spite of the work he'd been doing lately. Exams seem to take it out on your nervous system, more than anything else. Guess he'd let it go at a club sandwich, and fortify himself with something else later on in the afternoon...
...Abbott's actors have worked for him before, call themselves unofficially the Abbott Acting Company, team together smoothly. Arlene Francis is a countess who could warm any blueblood, and Allyn Joslyn, one of the merry scenarists in Boy Meets Girl, makes the playboy a likable wag in spite of his practical jokes and bowlegged puns. Sample: "A lecher is a man who collects lechings...
...task of raising funds fell largely to his frail widow. Tirelessly, in spite of a spinal ailment that made exertion difficult, she has since toured the U. S., giving concerts (she is a good pianist), talking, gleaning contributions to keep the MacDowell Colony going. During the past 30 years she has succeeded in personally raising some $100,000. The Colony has grown, occupies today some 500 acres sprinkled with isolated cottages, with room for 50 artists each summer. A list of those who have benefited by its hospitality at one time or another, reads like...
Although it has long been recognized that the rights and privileges of broadcasters are not so great as those of the press, this letter pointed the difference in official black & white. The press, in spite of its guaranteed freedom, is not permitted to be immoral, obscene or libelous. But in order to preserve freedom of expression, freedom of artistic taste and freedom of information to all minorities however wrong-thinking they may be, the press is permitted to be vulgar, if not suggestive, to be just as offensive as it likes to "right-thinking people." By FCC doctrine as laid...