Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some, the advent of Miss Dorothy Gish to the legitimate stage is no doubt a great event. We would not go quite so far as to say that. But she does give what is on the whole a good performance. The blot on her scutcheon is that in spite of her acting she gives the impression of being about eight years older than the score the play calls...
...fancy Catholic bishops will lose their rings or their tempers about that. But who-who on earth ever gave you the right to speak for the "rank and file of Roman Catholics if let alone by the Catholic Hierarchy?" The Catholic rank and file, in spite of this metallic voice pounding in the wilderness of South Dakota-yes, the Catholic laity do want parochial schools for their boys and girls. They are eager to have their children trained in religion which makes for morality and turns us out finer citizens and gives parents better results from their offspring. The parochial...
...Baudelaire, in spite of arduous anc meticulous polishing, was not a skilful nor always successful prosodist, and his vocabulary was comparatively small. Gautier, his master, wrote better verse. Anc Joris Karl Huysmans, his disciple, was more artistically erotic...
...operetta" of this type owes a debt to Gilbert and Sullivan. The present composer, Mr. Maurice Jacquet, puts his opus in that debtor class though, no doubt, unintentionally. Traces of those British gentlemen and of Johann Strauss abound. But in spite of these resemblances, the songs have a freshness and a catchy quality not to be credited most other imitators...
...famous Iron Man trophy, annually awarded to the winning foils team, was captured by the Navy, in spite of the vigorous efforts of the Yale team to repeat their last year's victory in this division. The Midshipmen will also receive a new trophy, the gift of which was made public today, consisting of crossed blades and a mask on a pedstal. In the individual contests, Captain F. S. Righeimer of Yale, though closely pressed by D. I. Modell '30 of Harvard, distinguished himself as victor in both foils and epee. The individual sabre title was won by Frederick Giddings...