Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Levine is carrying on, a pioneer like the others but not a publicity hunter. Without financial backing you can get nowhere with a commercial business. He knows it and will help put commercial aviation on its feet in spite of everything...
...laboring occasionally for 50c a day. In 1898 the U. S. Government allotted to him 160 acres of land. That was good, he thought?a place all his own for his shack?plenty of space for roaming?maybe there was a little easy money in the land, in spite of its rocks and sterile soil...
...martyrdom. When he grew old enough to read men's books he read Robert E. Speer's A Memorial of Horace Tracy Pitkin,* which told how the slain man had as a boy been skilled in mechanics, had treated school studies as chores essential to be done in spite of dislike, had for two years of his young manhood been undecided whether to study medicine or theology. He took up religion and, with Sherwood Eddy and Henry W. Luce, developed the Students' Volunteer Movement, which at the end of the 1890's did so much to enliven religious activities...
...dreamed for us-but it was not so and the nightmare of the lower classes has saddened very badly your father's soul. The men of this dying old society, they brutally pulled me away from the embrace of your brother and your poor mother. But, in spite of all, the free spirit of a father's faith still survives, and I have lived for it and for the dream that some day I would have come back to life, among our friends and comrades again, but woe is me." Despondent, indeed, was the tone of Mr. Sacco...
...first experience as a trial lawyer. Release, recognition and death follow. Rex Cherryman, last seen in The Noose, gives promise of developing into one of the theatre's most brilliant young actors. Carroll McComas, as the lady so much more sinned against than sinning, seemed real in spite of her struggle with late Victorian anguish...