Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of her son's remonstrances that he had seen Grays Hall before and that it had looked smaller, she spoke to the nearest workman. "In that Grays Hall?" she asked...
...returning to a certain extent to the life for which I was preparing myself before the war and which I exchanged for active politics. My life has now again returned to the academic sphere, but in spite of all contradictory rumors this does not mean that I am not following events closely...
Many times Leftists have halted Rightist offensives, counterattacked with vigor, but last week's capture of Belchite, in spite of the fact that the rebels still held the Cathedral, was the first important Leftist victory since the Italian rout at Guadalajara in March (TIME, March 22 et seq.). Politically it was still more important. Jealousy behind the lines has removed from command of the Leftist International Brigade General Emilio Kleber, has seriously handicapped the defender of Madrid, General José Miaja. For the recent Saragossa-Teruel offensive 200,000 men were assembled, 200 planes, nearly 1,000 trucks. This...
...many reasons for the slump in the New York Stock Exchange (see p. 57), but other Exchange excitement could be laid entirely at war's door. Wheat jumped 3? a bushel one day on the Chicago and Winnipeg markets on a general war scare. Japanese bonds, in spite of a rally, stood 15 points below their price three weeks ago-a pain to U. S. banks which hold them as collateral for loans to Japan...
...Turk's head at the Fair, and what is more, my metaphors make sense. That is what counts." Careful Critic Sainte-Beuve: "Criticism consists in saying whatever comes into one's head. That is all there is to it." Dispassionate observers, in spite of friendship, was just what the Goncourts were. Of their great friend Flaubert they report: "He works ten hours a day but is a great waster of time, forgetting himself in things he picks up to read, and constantly running away from the book he is writing. He hardly ever warms to his work before...