Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told the truth, little less fantastic, about his years as a sort of gondola bum in Venice. Nicholas Crabbe concerns Rolfe as a pitiful but unpitying literary hack in turn-of-the-century London -badgered, betrayed and swindled by a gallery of grotesque clowns called publishers and editors. The spite of this novel is now 50 years old, but time has been no deodorant...
...palace, which because of its busyness she calls Le Moulin (the mill), she handles a bewildering assortment of visitors and letters asking every sort of favor, from help in curbing an abusive husband to advice on a Latin essay. She manages the presidential palaces and mansions, but in spite of her connections ran for the National Assembly as an Independent. "I am very independent," she explains. "It isn't that I disagree with the majority party, but I might in the future...
...followers in the London suburb of Pant's Road, it is blasphemy to call a doctor, for that is an admission that God is incapable of miracles. Preedy seems to have worked quite a few miracles himself, and his fame is spreading. This in spite of the known fact that he has seduced a 14-year-old girl, got her pregnant, and allowed her baby to die rather than call a physician. Years later, he continues to force himself on the girl he seduced, for he believes that in sinning against Alice he found...
...feud over the Class Marshal election continues to be as ugly an argument as any national election scandal--and with less reason. The Young Republican Club remains the hotbed of personal spite and political pettiness that has characterized it for lo, these many years. And the Student Council would appear to be warming up to a nasty little fight for officers--again, it would seem, more a clash of personalities than of issues...
...Guatemala on mysterious missions during Guatemala's Red-influenced days, Che joined Fidel Castro in Mexico in time for the invasion. He turned the tide of war with his bloody late-December campaign in the central province of Las Villas, which he commanded in spite of a broken...