Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daughters and entertained their friends. But when his dependable older daughter began to champion one of these, a violent young political laborite; and his darling younger daughter confessed she had allowed another, a scandalous man-about-town, to make love to her, he scuttled and flapped. In spite of his exertions, one daughter (not the one he had suspected) ran off with the laborite, and the other discovered an unexpected admirer. The discovery, and the confusion of identities smacks of threadbare "literary device," but Mr. Swinnerton (author of Nocturne, The Elder Sister) never fails in charm of atmosphere, virtuosity...
...Gangster is the autobiography of a gangster adapted from a serial in the Saturday Evening Post. Beer-drinking as a baby, sneak-thieving as a schoolboy, pool-playing, loafing, robbing, killing?such things, say numerous subtitles, land young men in the jug. In spite of the monotonous effort of the script to point a moral. Director Raoul Walsh has made this rather gentle document of crook life effective by little niceties?the ward-heeler spitting in the hand, extended for a friendly shake, of the gangster who taught his son bad ways; the prisoner in the visiting room who wants...
...might have been a Rooshian, a Frenchman. Turk or Rooshian, or an Eye-tal-l-an. But in spite of all temptations he remained, or became, as the case may be, a Republican. And he went to Boston in his old clothes and several busses, and down the streets which know him, perhaps, in the soberer black and white of evening, dress he flung roses and other things riotously with the throng to the greater glory of a Presidential candidate...
...spite of certain marked weaknesses in the construction of the play, "Coquette" is worth an evening any time. It is excellent dramatic entertainment, and it may here be said that the success of the play depends entirely on the number of dramatic situations which the authors have been able to devise. But were it not for the very high standard of the acting, it is to be feared that many of these situations would not register...
...editorial tried to make clear that in spite of his meagre chances of election Mr. Thomas' candidacy was valuable from the standpoint of education and as a militant publicity for aspects of government often neglected. The CRIMSON takes this opportunity of reaffirming this conviction and pointing to its agreement with the spirit of the preceding letter...