Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such was the fame of his eloquence that he gave up the law for the bigger Chatau-qua money. Incessantly he spoke on the small tradesman and farmer, and wrote about them in The Commoner, weekly journal of one man's opinion, which endured through 22 years in spite of its spotty journalism and shortage of advertisements. For on principle Bryan refused to accept advertising of trust-made goods, though his sheet "reeked with patent medicine advertising." Indifferent to his meagre advertising columns, he reveled in belaboring the Republicans for their sins, championed religious freedom (the Dayton trial...
...third time defeated in presidential campaign. Then turning rabidly on wetness, bulwark of the Democratic platform, he made straight the way for the 18th amendment. In 1912 he dominated yet another convention, in spite of furious yells: "I will give $25,000 to anyone who will kill him!", and "Why doesn't somebody hang him?" Bryan's part...
...spite of this reduction, borrowings from member banks, largely to finance brokers' loans, climbed to a new high point since 1921, reaching almost...
Followed a century of terrific political upheaval. Tortures and carnage culminated in the massacre of 1915 which seemed to justify American intervention. For in spite of unrest, foreign financial investments had reached proportions requiring protection. America took control first of the customs, then of national finance, and virtually all other administration, with "no object in view except to insure . . . firm government by the Haitian people...
...Book Larnin'". That response will not be far from the truth. Certain modernistic notions to the contrary not with standing, reading comprises the greater part of our waking hours in college, and books of one sort or another are the most evident concomitants of the academic atmosphere. But in spite of our private shelves of volumes, in spite of our wonderful library with its millions of tomes, its acreage of information--there is one wholly extraneous class of printed matter that in time consumed and interest manifested can be said to equal even our beloved books. I refer, of course...