Word: exception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knows too many after-dinner stories even to count. He knows his company for any particular one. He is no vulgarian. His manners would be called excellent except for his penchant to monopolize the conversation. On first acquaintance he seems a truly remarkable man. He does not wear well. That he has the talent and the information to make the mess a lot worse than it is, bad as it is, is not questioned...
...Simultaneous with England's centenary of toleration towards Catholics (see p. 52) all Baltimore's fraternal organizations except the Ku Klux Klan, warned by bicentenary good-feeling, formed a permanent non-sectarian body which they promised to make worldwide...
...Except in the defence departments [Army, Navy, Air], no person shall in the future be ineligible for appointment to any place in the civil service by reason of the fact that military service was declined in the British forces on the ground of conscientious objection...
Muddle & Stalemate. Though superficially plausible the Hughes stand won over no Nationalist M. P. except Yachtsman Marks. Only the fact that the Government was balanced on a single vote made possible a debacle which throws before Australian voters an issue mixed and muddled as completely as possible by Parliament. The one clean-cut way out would be a sweeping victory for the chief Opposition party (Labor), but few observers believed that possible, last week, because recent state elections have heavily favored the Nationalists. Gloomily, Australians faced the post-election prospect of another Nationalist Government stalemated by the feud between Hughes...
...that was what Bolshevist intellectuals thought but dared not say last week when they heard that Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin had placed in charge of Russia's schools and universities bold, dashing, ruthless General Andrei Bubnov (pronounced Boobnoff). Dictator Stalin himself is not exactly educated, speaks no language except Russian, has to look up places like "Portugal" in a dog-eared atlas. He knows well enough that General Bubnov was expelled from the Moscow School of Agriculture 26 years ago as a "dangerous radical" and has had little or no formal education since. More important in the Dictator...