Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whims & Fig Leaves. This has been achieved in spite of rather than because of the industry, which is skittery and as subject to sudden sinking spells as any industry that lives to satisfy woman's whim. Its 11,000 employers are mostly small businessmen who must move rapidly and warily in a trade that is bitterly competitive, determinedly rapacious. A man with a design idea and a batch of orders can have a Cadillac and an establishment on Riverside Drive in six months. Then, like a gust of wind in a wheat field, women's minds change...
...world saw an important spectacle: the political tussles of something very like an international parliament. In the corridor outside the assembly hall, in plain view of all Europe, Churchill grabbed the lapels of Liberal Lord Layton, whom he backed against Whiteley. "If you rat on me now in spite of our 40 years' friendship," hissed Churchill, "I will never speak to you again." Tory delegates patrolled the corridors, lobbying for Layton. Two Danes asked in French whether this man Layton really deserved their vote, and a British Tory replied suavely: "Ah, mais oui, c'est un brave...
...round six, when Lesnevich spent himself in a hammer & tongs attack, the fight was all Ezzard's. When wornout, scar-tissued Gus Lesnevich, his face puffed and bleeding, failed to get off his stool for the eighth round, the fight went to Ezzard on a technical knockout. In spite of the human virtues which had denied Ezzard Charles the true killer instinct of the great fighter, he looked like the best heavyweight in the game...
After that the pace picked up a little, but not until they were one-quarter mile from home did they start to run in earnest. Richards brought Ridge Wood to the wire in front by three lengths. In spite of spectators' boos and an inquiry by track stewards (who found that no rule had been infringed) Ridge Wood's owner picked up $4,648 in prize money. Time: 5:13 4/5. World's record for the distance...
...spite of her Louisiana upbringing, Mrs. Grant sympathizes with the U.S. Negro's indignation at the unwritten laws which force him, in most communities, to buy only rundown houses in rundown districts. Four years ago, as a broker in a big Los Angeles real-estate firm, she took a call from another broker asking about a new house. Asked Mrs. Grant: "Is your client a Caucasian?" The answer from the caller, a Negro, was cold and angry: "No she's not, and neither...