Word: stubbornly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What, after viewing the results of these endeavors, astounded those who knew the picture's history was not Mr. Goldwyn's superior foresight but the fact that anybody should be moved either to violent objection to the material in hand or to stubborn faith in it. Woman Chases Man is a haywire story made in the mold of the current vogue for haywire stories. After wavering on the fringes of light comedy for a little while, it sheds its inhibitions and goes whole hog into farce...
...your last dollar that whenever Will says anything he knows what he is talking about. And, furthermore, you might as well try to move the sun as try to make Will tell anything that he's not a mind to tell. He's nearly as stubborn...
Judge Gibson retired to his chambers to ponder these perplexities. Last week he emerged to announce that his mind was unchanged, to strengthen his restraining order by issuing a temporary injunction. Final hearing on a permanent injunction would be held later. Thoroughly vexed at this stubborn obstacle in their path, Government attorneys pondered whether to make one more attempt to win Judge Gibson over; to try to get the Manhattan Court to enjoin him; or to appeal the case to a higher Federal Court...
...most of the smaller independents fell in line and signed up with C. I. O.'s Steel Workers Organizing Committee, the larger companies, employing more than 200,000 men and producing about one-fourth of the nation's steel, continued stubborn holdouts. When the Supreme Court certified the Wagner Act, their resistance took a subtle turn. They were entirely willing to bargain with S. W. O. C. and perhaps to enter into agreements with it-but they would have nothing put down in writing. Standing thus, they were strictly within their legal rights: the Wagner Act requires only...
...week's end, stubborn Anarchists still held many small Barcelona suburbs, but they had lost more than men. Luis Companys reshuffled his Cabinet, reduced the Anarchist membership to one, and took away from the party the important post of Minister of Defense, refilling it with the more moderate Antonio Sese, Socialist, who was then promptly killed by a stray bullet as he was leaving a Cabinet meeting...