Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grim, tide-gnawed rock called Alcatraz just inside San Francisco's Golden Gate, the prisoners are counted every 30 minutes. They live in silence, permitted no talk except what is essential to their work, save on Saturdays when (if they have been good) they converse under guard for 2½ hours. After the prisoners are locked in at night, the guards engage in rifle practice. They leave their targets (human-shaped dummies) sprawled along the walkway with bullet holes in vital spots for the prisoners to see in the morning. No convict has escaped alive from Alcatraz. A number...
...homes of friends, found they could go to London for dinner and the theatre without being mobbed. In Paris, where they moved after living for a time at Illiec, a secluded Breton isle, life was just as calm. At dinner in the Crillon, at the theatre, no one except an occasional American tourist gawked at them. There were no autograph hunters...
Hero of this year's series was the same towheaded titan who was the hero of the first post-War series in 1921 and every series since (except 1936 when he was too busy to go abroad to play): Thomas Hitchcock Jr. Son of the captain of the first U. S. polo team (that lost to England in 1886), Tommy Jr., at 39-and after a quarter-century of competitive polo-proved last week that he is still the best polo player in the world. Spectators, gasping at his fearless riding, peerless tactics, magnificent driving and accurate shotmaking, realized...
...Congressman Fred Albert Britten, Washington Columnist George Gould Lincoln, onetime Assistant Attorney General Harry Wallace Blair. A number of other sponsors were devout men who were well aware that MRA was a Buchmanite enterprise; among them Senator Borah and Attorney General Murphy, who said: "I know nothing about [MRA] except what is good." But a majority of the Hon. sponsors were bandwagon jumpers and politicians whose attitude was, "Hell, it's not controversial, is it?" Republican Minority Leader Joseph William Martin Jr., who had signed a statement for the MRA meeting's program ("Moral Re-Armament...
...business will come back. The other takes the risk of cutting his prices, and often succeeds in wooing back vanishing trade, while he keeps his employes on the job, his goods in circulation, his ledgers in the black. To the first school the Eastern railroads of the U. S. (except for Daniel Willard's Baltimore & Ohio) have largely adhered through Depression I and II. Meanwhile, Western and Southern roads, which chopped deep into their passenger fares, reaped a reward in increased passenger revenues, less idleness for rolling stock and men. Last week, the Eastern roads finally enrolled...