Word: spites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...widowed mother who has squandered her childrens' patrimony through a combination of poor business judgement and extravagance and whose compensating virtues are limited to a determination to keep them-with her and a touching habit of buying roses when the source of the next meal is in doubt. In spite of the difficulties of the part it does not take her long to charm the audience into sympathy with her struggle to keep the family together and their support becomes almost vociferous at critical points...
Notwithstanding a University decree prohibiting distribution of pamphlets in the Yard, and in spite of Cambridge statutes forbidding the free distribution of printed matter, the Socialist Club, undaunted, promises to put a fly-leaf in the local ointment on Friday. It is a pamphlet entitled "Welcome to Macdonald" and deals with the history of the English Labor party...
...contempt of Senate (refusing to answer questions) and of court (jury shadowing), or to Henry Mason Day, Mr. Sinclair's henchman. Day has a passport to go to Europe next month when he will be released in the regular course of events. Sinclair must wait till November, in spite of his plea that his weight has fallen from 200 Ibs. to 185 Ibs., that stockholders are suffering from his absence...
...been rumoured in past years that this course was considered to easy that University Hall sent men to the Music Building to find out whether Professor Hill was even giving lectures. In spite of this reputation the course is one of the best open to students with good grades who wish to fulfill distribution requirements, and at the same time get an excellent survey of music from Palestrina to the present day. Professor Hill is one of the most amusing lectures in the University and deserves special credit for recognizing that most students in the college like to lighten...
...photographed kinetically; was billed as "The Man You Love to Hate". Not satisfied, he became a director for Universal. He made some good pictures, but took long to make them, spent huge sums, worked his casts to exhaustion. Last year, after finishing The Wedding March, a dull picture in spite of a budget so huge that the producers did not exploit the figures, he started to direct Gloria Swanson in Queen Kelly. Limited strictly as to time and funds, he was removed when he exceeded his limitations. Now he is a good actor again...