Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hips, chest, stomach with a shotgun. Throughout the U. S. men & women streamed to the Polish, German, British, French and Italian consulates, offering to enlist as reserves, volunteers, nurses. U. S. Poles quickly collected $1,000,000 for Warsaw. Everywhere consulates kept open doors all day except the British, which closed each afternoon at 3:30 p. m. for 4 o'clock tea. Thousands of aliens rushed to naturalization offices, seeking U. S. citizenship in a hurry...
...German border was not reopened except to pedestrians. Exports stopped moving into Hitlerland from Mussoliniland, because the neutrality which B. Mussolini announced for himself was a status which Britain and France, preoccupied though they were with other business, watched with stern, forbidding eyes. The only good Indian used to be a dead Indian. The only safe Mussolini from now on is a Mussolini whose hand performs as his tongue has avowed...
Operations in Sperry Gyro's 11-story Brooklyn plant are romantically secretive. Sperry employes (all U. S. citizens) wear colored badges (a different color for each division), come and go under the vigilant eyes of watchmen. Except for a few top officials, no Sperry employe knows much about what is going on outside his own division...
...disgraced me; my second [Poems'] bankrupted me; after my third one [Dead Reckoning] I was lucky to get away with my life." As his literary influences he names Composer Maurice Ravel, Painter George Grosz, Poets Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg. But no critic has accused him of imitativeness, except, at times, of himself...
COLD STEAL-Alice Tilton-Norton ($2). Leonidas Witherall's new house near Boston is perfect except for a corpse in the garage. Not so mysterious but light-hearted and amusing...