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Word: excepted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fear that Congress would just lie down like a tired mule once it was disposed of. The result was something approaching a new deadlock, this time between the Presidential will and Congressional fatigue. There was some talk about adjournment and reconvening in October as a way out, but everybody except possibly the President and most ardent New Dealers was just a little too tired to make an issue over anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tired Mule | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...Except for the charge that it is childish, nothing so angers archers as the charge that their sport is effete, and the newspapers' habit of using almost no archery pictures except those of pretty girls. Actually, archery is among the most strenuous of pastimes. At the National Archery Association's 57th annual target meeting in Lancaster, Pa. last week, major object of attention was not pretty Jean A. Tenney of Clear Spring, Md., who won the women's championship on the meet's third day, but the 106-man shooting line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Toxophily in Lancaster | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...Sleuth Smythe's capacious hat gratifying miracles sometimes popped, trustees and executors got in the habit of laying the contents of old tin boxes before Mr. Smythe's blazing blue eyes, red face and Edwardian whiskers. Mr. Smythe loved to talk, hated to give any information except for a fee. For the last 20 years of his life he was the only broker in New York who refused to have a telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cat & Dog Dealer | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Apparently there was no particular reason why the Rockefeller Stock Exchange seat went to Son Laurance except that he seems to be his father's general understudy. As long as the seat was to remain in the family, it had to be transferred to one of them, and Son, Laurance was picked. Asked what Son Laurance expected to do with it, a Rockefeller associate declared: "He doesn't know himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Aug. 2, 1937 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...worse than the reader thought. In chains after making mincemeat of two burly guards, dreamy six-foot Christopher defies his captors to do their worst, says he means to guarantee Victoria's accession to the throne. Having made good many pages later, Christopher asks nothing in return except a royal document canceling his actress friend's unsavory beginnings as a prostitute's daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fat Book | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

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