Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people of Scandinavia, in spite of their small numbers and their unfavorable location, have played a part in history quite out of proportion to their numerical rank. Twice they have, indeed, been the leaders of Europe. The first time was in 1630, when Gustavus Adolfus placed Sweden on a pinnacle from which she soon had to descend. Again, two and a half centuries later, Scandinavia was an arbiter, but this time in the field of letters. Ibsen, Strindberg, Bjornson formed a mighty trio of dramatists; and the greatest of these was Ibsen...
...coal necessary in six months with the men now in the industry. Because of our increase in population in the last eight or ten years it now should take 140 men to supply the needs of the country where 100 could do so. Instead of that and in spite of our having 20,000,000 more people, the needs of the country are fully supplied with 7% fewer workers than we needed...
...eagerly once more. Statistics on eating habits are of little value, for the number of restaurants and their respective popularity shift with the dazzling speed of the population of a boom town in a gold-mining district--a simile not without exact application to the situation here. In spite of the excessive number of eating-places in the Square, there appears to be business enough to keep everything from hot-dog booths to semi-night clubs in existence...
Mussolini has tried by brute force to Italianize these people by suppressing the local newspapers and forbidding the teaching of German in the schools. He has forced Austrian families to change their surnames, if there was any Italian blood in the stock. He has done these things in spite of the fact that in 1922 he and the King of Italy insured the people of Tyrol that they might live unoppressed. His actions prove the extent to which Wilson's ideals have been adapted by nations only in so far as they coincided with the individual country's advantage. When...
...Showdown," now on view at the Metropolitan, is obviously modelled on the first Bancroft-Brent opus. Unfortunately it doesn't quite come off: it is an entertaining film and in places a very good film, but it suffers by comparison. Bancroft looks extremely roguish and in spite of the fact that he is cast as a Diamond in the Rough he manages to leave the impression of good clean villainy. Miss Brent, playing a girl reeking with refinement for the first part of the picture, redeems herself by going slightly but uncontrollably native in the latter half. Which brings...