Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people who write this material are, in spite of a continual campaign to get in new blood, a fairly constant band of professional "slick paper" magazine writers who make from $5,000 to $250,000 a year at their trade. Incorrigible highbrows criticize the Post's taboos (par for middle-class conception of decency anywhere), complain that in its non-fiction no intellectual rivers are ever set afire, in its fiction no Buddenbrooks appear among the Clarence Buddington Kellands. This is old stuff to Editor Stout's staff. Nowadays they respond simply by handing out a reprint...
Union organizers voiced assurance, however, that in spite of inadequate wage compensation a contract would be willingly signed by Locals 186 and 112 if the American Federation of Labor were given exclusive bargaining rights for all employed in Harvard dining halls...
Solution of the Peabody Museum was no nearer yesterday in spite of the efforts of Colonel Apted's office and the police. The robbers' escape in spite of the fact that a prowl car reached the scene not three minutes after the alarm sounded was still a mystery. The gold and jade objects were still unrecovered...
...spite of seven U. S. flags flying from the Panay and painted on her, the Japanese bombers might have made a mistake, but when they dived and bombed her a second time the Panay's crew could no longer believe it. They manned the machine guns on deck and began to fire. Respecting the machine guns, the planes did not come close enough to score direct hits on their third and fourth returns but their bombs struck alongside, puncturing her near the water and hastening her sinking...
...spite of, or because of the fact that Miss Skinner is the hardest-worked actress now playing on Broadway, her entertainment has a large element of stunt-appeal. Theatregoers tell each other how wonderful it is that she can do it all alone. Edna His Wife is also a fascinating guessing-game. Only by inference from the spoken lines can the audience know what the invisible characters are supposed to be saying. Thanks to Miss Skinner's powers of suggestion, Edna's husband, who never appears, seems as real as any person in the play...