Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of us know nothing of history except what goes on during our own lifetime and the Versailles Treaty happens to be the only one we know and hear about. So it does not occur to us that if we blame the present war on the Versailles Treaty we must be logical and go farther back: for that treaty we must blame the Frankfurt Treaty of 1871 which must be blamed on some previous treaty which should be blamed on some other treaty which ought to be blamed on some other treaty which certainly must be blamed on some other...
...there are a few traditional bits of advice worth passing on, if only for the sake of the record. Avoid blind dates at Radcliffe and that hideous building on Mt. Auburn St.; ignore resolutely the vultures outside Memorial Hall (except, of course, those offering the Crimson); and learn to sneer with fine Bostonian indifference when you meet the people who can always tell a Harvard man, etc., and who, convulsed, offer the simile: "As aloof as those men about to enter Harvard...
Actual extent of Allied and German flights in the war's first week no one on the west shore of the Atlantic could tell. From official communiques, however, it appeared that except for Germany's Polish push, the one big show of the week was put on by England...
...France even weather reports were suppressed, lest they give enemy airmen valuable information. Classified advertising and crossword puzzles were barred from French newspapers to keep spies from printing messages in code. The French press contained little except official bulletins, stirring appeals, atrocity stories and reports from the front that were obviously cooked...
...overproducing Cuba a crop of 3,500,000 was in prospect -all ample to meet U. S. needs (annual consumption: 6,600,000 tons) with plenty left over for the perennial Cuban surplus. For the fall killing there were a bumper pig crop, ample supplies of other meats except lamb, in which the 1939 crop is short, and Chicago packers were passing up orders from abroad because the British had fixed their prices below the level to which last week's speculative boom had pushed domestic prices...