Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidges' plans after March 4 were being discussed at a dinner given by a Cabinet officer for the President and Mrs. Coolidge. The President looked very blank. All angling for information had been futile. The hostess popped out, in spite of herself, with a suggestion. Why, she asked, might not Mr. Coolidge take a chair in "Thrift" at Aberdeen University? President Coolidge smiled broadly...
...sweetheart having been killed in a street accident when he went out to get a taxi to take them to the station, she is back as hostess in her husband's house-could not possibly be told so well without the sound device. For once, the voices, in spite of still imperfect reproduction, give life to the characterizations-H. B. Warner's Englishman, Ruth Chatterton's faithless wife. Best shot: Miss Chatterton on the sofa making up her mind...
...cynic, realized that she was "a charming woman without the faintest conception of her own limitations-damned dangerous." The other, an engineer and therefore an idealist, thought her "like a spearhead of beauty in a difficult world." Certainly she made it difficult for him: ran off with him in spite of, or because of, his wife; then left him in the lurch because, she discovered it was the cynic she "really loved." The idealist snatched this opportunity to make the final sacrifice for his spearhead of beauty, and set out upon a raging sea, heroic in a catboat...
...spite of the many excellent paragraphs in the book, it is not important. There is nothing fundamentally new although there is much that gains distinction through organization and skillful phrasing. The difficulties of sexual affairs are well considered and the good old solution by sublimation is touched on though less convincingly perhaps than is frequent...
...spite of a new setting Bancroft shows that he is the same man that took the country by storm last winter in his, series of appearances in underworld film, and the part has been built up to fit him. Collar always open, even in the midst of the smoothest looking bunch of stock brokers that could be gathered together in Hollywood, he is given opportunity to do everything but get into a good old fashioned fight...