Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of the Labor ministers' justifiable complaints, most British cabinet salaries are higher than corresponding U. S. salaries, for example...
...spite of his vaunted present "poverty" King Amanullah and his party of 24 were met by four large limousines at Marseilles where they left the Mooltan and proceeded to Italy by rail...
...especially Gilbert Emery as one of those film detectives who combine social welfare work with their profession, and Lois Moran, act and talk competently and at times with distinction. Somehow they subdue the silliness of their material enough to make it distantly credible. The scenarist has retained continuity in spite of the propensity which the villain shares with the hero of traveling amazing distances for very little reason. Silliest shot: love among the camels...
...white flashing lights, newly installed last week. Fifteen minutes after a speaker obtains the floor, a white flash warns him courteously that his time is almost up. If he does not stop talking when the red flash comes, everyone knows he is out of order. In spite of this innovation, parliamentary business proceeded as slowly as ever in Paris last week...
...spite of dull 2,000,000-share stock market days last week some specialty stocks remained buoyantly active. Utilities, congenitally defiant of the financial laws of gravity, were particularly strong. In addition to the general potency of such words "as "superpower," "giant power," they were inspired by rumor of mergers in New York State utility companies. Over-the-counter houses were selling shares in the new company before its formation was officially announced. Parties to the merger, described as a Morgan-Schoellkopf-Carlisle union, were...