Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Election of a new Republican National Committeeman in Illinois last fortnight revealed nothing about Republican sentiment in that key State except that the local gentlemen do not want National Chairman John Hamilton's finger poking into their local affairs. Over Charles B. Goodspeed, the G. O. P.'s national treasurer and John Hamilton's good friend, they elected Hill Blackett, 47, advertising tycoon (Blackett-Sample-Hummert Inc.), who handled radio time for the Landon campaign. Announced Committeeman Blackett last week: "Any man has an equal chance as far as I'm concerned...
...next year Maurice Grosser, a "natural," had been given an exhibition at Harvard and had even sold some watercolors. He graduated with honors in mathematics, which he has never used since except for reading himself to sleep. First as a workman in the stained glass factory of famed Charles J. Connick; then on a Harvard fellowship in Italy, where he lived with a peasant family in Anticoli and the goat's milk stuck to his teeth; then employed by Muralists Victor White and Barry Faulkner to put vague decorations on expensive Manhattan walls, Maurice Grosser adjusted himself...
...summer-conference hotel, a huge white-columned building with a magnificent view of the Craggy Mountains across the Swannanoa Valley. First year, Black Mountain's teachers drew no pay. To help support the college, teachers and students ran a farm, did their own housework (except cooking and dishwashing...
...Europe, Catholics commonly parade in the streets with the Blessed Sacrament on Corpus Christi, a feast celebrating the Lord's institution of the Eucharist. One of the few places in the U. S. where elaborate Corpus Christi processions take place is Florissant. Except for a few years after the World War, Florissant's devout inhabitants have decorated the town and marched with the Sacrament on every Corpus Christi since...
...present course of University policy suggests the possibility of an ironic solution to "the problem of the younger teacher" at Harvard: namely, not to have any younger teachers at all at Harvard, except those who are still seeking their doctorates...