Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increase in janitorial or maintenance staffs have been made in spite of the increase in House population, the report pointed out. The cost of maid service is only $22 per man per term, the committee found, indicating that it considered this cost cheap and its value high...
Ocean of Neck. The London Handel moved to in 1712 was a bawdy place of brawling and bawling. Handel did well at court. Queen Anne, who had little use for musicians, pensioned him just to spite her Hanoverian cousins. Anne's successor, lumpish George I, attended almost all his operas with his favorite German mistress and her "two acres of cheeks ... an ocean of neck." The rest of London was more fickle. Addison, who had written an unsuccessful opera himself, denounced and ridiculed Handel's music. Handel's rival, the egocentric Giovanni Battista Bononcini, kept him fighting...
...must go on," he explains. Finally he writes a book that exposes the little doings of everyone in the suburb, O'Hara and Young make up like sensible folk, and things are generally looking up, with Miss O'Hara expecting a fourth little boy. Three's a plenty, in spite of that coy look she gives us just before the Coming Attraction flashes on the screen...
...story told about a man in wrath, TIME chose a picture of him looking angry; if, in the story, he had reason to rejoice, the picture smiled. Years ago, Edward Steichen, master of photography, made this comment: "Depending chiefly on one class of material, press portraits, and in spite of an apparently casual and insignificant display, these portraits have become one of the most dynamic features of the magazine...
Cold Comfort. In spite of the cold weather, which nicked steel and automobile output, the Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production for January stood at 192, a peacetime peak, for the third successive month (1935-39 average...