Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...invent a new contrivance or a new "helpful hint," which, however painstaking in its working up, suffers from close association with too many of its kind. Such are the penalties of "special numbers" except where the subject lends itself more easily to varied treatment. That the number, in spite of its handicaps, proves so entertaining, testifies highly to the quality of its individual contributions
Early in the evening, even with reports from only a few states, it was impossible only to say by how much Harding would win. In spite of incomplete news, the New York World, a staunch Cox supporter, has conceded a victory to Harding. This may be due to the fact that the Republican nominee has carried by a large majority the pivotal states of New York, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Besides this, reports seem to favor him in the West; San Francisco gave him nearly a 12,000 majority. In the Middle West, St. Louis supported Harding. Reports have...
...Yale Board of Football Strategy, headed by Coach Jones, has decided not to make any special preparations for the Brown game in spite of the fact that the Providence eleven is certain to give them a hard fight, but to devote their entire time and attention to improving the playing of their second and third string men who will undoubtedly be needed in either the Princeton or Harvard games, and to the reconditioning of Captain Callahan, Aldrich, Acosta, Murphy, and Dickens, all of whom have been out of the game for quite a while...
...long practice yesterday. The first thing on the program was a long talk, in which he told his squad that he was well pleased with the way in which they had mixed their running an aerial attack last Saturday. Then the eleven ran through dummy scrimmage which lasted in spite of the dark, with the aid of the new lighting system, until nearly 7 o'clock...
...appropriate; whether this had anything to do with the play itself, or simply betrayed the contrary mood of the spectators is a question. However, they did have a right to laugh at the end of the first act, when two stage-hands took the curtain-call by mistake. In spite of its defective technique, then, "The Sign on the Door" is redeemed for future audiences by the excellence of the cast, and especially by the ability of Marjorie Rambeau...