Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nigger men" and even more most certainly not the cowered and much outraged white women. . . . Maybe I am wrong, but it seems to me that if in spite of Ku Kluxes and Jim Crow laws, "niggers" are good enough to be made the sons, daughters, aunties, uncles, cousins, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law and concubines of the high-and- mighty Southern gentlemen of Poynter's ilk there should be little room for complaint from them when a few humble but learned magazine editors and managers persist on "putting themselves down on equality with Negroes...
...United States. Nor was this due to pacifism, but the more high-minded citizens were no less earnestly desirous of world harmony, though scrupulous as to the means of procuring it. It was hoped that the last war was truly a "war to end war", and in spite of the regrettable quibblings that caused the League fiasco as far as this country was concerned, the government has avowed its desire for honorable peace. If sometimes impractical in the execution of its purpose, it has always posed as the champion of international goodwill. It comes unexpectedly that the Chairman...
...TIME is out of joint: Oh cursed spite. That ever I was borne to set it right...
Last week Rear Admiral Edward W. Eberle, Chief of Naval Operations, went before the Naval Affairs Committee of the House, told of the perilous state of the Navy,* demanded that Congress authorize the building of three cruisers and one dirigible in spite of the budget provisions...
...debts settlements, hoping in doing this to attract the attention of the administration and the people to some of the errors of the present arrangement. Their criticism is constructive. They are not merely abstract thinkers trying to bring their principles before the public eye. But in spite of all this it is exceedingly doubtful whether the statement which they have made will have any effect on the whole problem of international debts...