Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...logic of the burlesque, the jury decides right, the true murderer is discovered because Victor Moore, as Mr. Beaver, is able to prove that no man can get upstairs, get undressed, take a shower, and get into his pajamas, all in six minutes and a half. In spite of the paucity of the plot, Helen Broderick as Mrs. Dean, the motivating force of the jury, and Victor Moore make the play pleasant, if simple entertainment...
...engage in House plays, perhaps the spontaneity which enliven the productions is most to be admired. When Lowell presented "The Beggar's Opera" several years ago, the audience was resigned beforehand to a poor attempt at a difficult play. Yet so good were the acting and singing that, in spite of themselves, the spectators laughed with the actors. The excellence of the performance was not due, by any means, to the experience of the players, but to their desire for self-entertainment, which is the essence of these endeavors...
...which has lost only two Conference games this year, its opponent from the Northern division in a two-out-of-three-game series for the Conference championship is likely to be either Oregon or Washington State, which last week was tied for the Conference lead in spite of being defeated by Washington, 37-to-34, at Seattle...
...Williams Jr. in his report to stockholders last week. Those two States account for 99% of all sulphur mined in the U. S.. and nearly all of it is produced by two companies, Texas Gulf Sulphur and President Williams' Freeport. Both companies are making money in spite of the fact that Louisiana upped the sulphur tax from 27? per ton to 60? in 1934, upped it again last summer to $2. In Texas the tax went from 55? per ton to 75? in 1931, then to $1.03 last autumn...
George is impressed in spite of himself by Finchatton's story, is further impressed by the gloomy thunders of Finchatton's doctor, who explains to him that Finchatton's story is all a yarn, but symbolically true: "The realities that are overwhelming him are so monstrous and frightful that he has to transform them into this fairy tale. . . ." The doctor alarms George even further by shouting that Finchatton is right: Cainsmarsh is everywhere, and the spirit of the animal cave man is still poisoning the air with fear. "What I tell you is the monstrous reality...