Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Using every appeal from health & sanitation to defense of the U. S. laboring man, Mr. Babst has carried his case to the public in speech, statement, advertising and labeling. In his brief to his stock-holders last week he argued principally on the ground of national safety. "In spite of war or drought, civil disturbance or disaster, the home refineries always have been able to obtain raw sugar in some quarter of the globe out of which to make the refined sugar requirements of the Nation," rumbled Mr. Babst...
Research should be valued for the benefits that it brings to society, he declared, saying, "In spite of the obvious material benefits that have flowed from the applications of modern science, there are those who quarrel with our universities for the vast sums spent on programs of research...
...Done It (by Mary Coyle Chase; Brock Pemberton, producer) is notable for being the first play to emerge from the sub-professional Federal Theatre as a regular Broadway production. There its distinction ends, for in spite or because of extensive revision by Director Antoinette Perry (Strictly Dishonorable) and her daughter Margaret's determined impersonation of a bordello's ex-cashier who gets a pretentious politician's family in and out of several difficulties, the show struck most critics as being stereotyped, strained, spurious...
...Lily Pons danced as well as sang the role of the unearthly siren who lured fat, fantastic King Dodon to his doom. Coq d'Or was successful enough to be repeated four times. Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman was almost as popular in spite of over-ingenious mounting by Stage Director Herbert Graf...
...surprise victory, David Emerson '38 won the annual Appalachian Mountain Club Downhill Championship yesterday on the Wildcat, boosting the ski team to second place in team standings. Dartmouth took the team prize from a strong field of 70 competitors. Dry snow made the precipitous course fast in spite of a warm...