Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exceptionally large group of Varsity and Freshman talent spent the vacation pounding the cinders. As a result the squad is in excellent shape for this time of year, except for Ros Brayton, miler, who got soaked in the eye with a shuttlecock while playing badminton; Bob Partlow, Jump artist, who still has a bad foot; and Coach Mikkola, who has a whing-ding of a cold...
...nurse who took care of him while he had it was a broad-mouthed, brunette divorcee named Marguerite Lawler Branyen, who had been a nurse-stewardess on the Union Pacific R.R. In Switzerland in 1937 Indore's child bride died. Last week, in India, the Maharaja announced that, except for abdication, he had just followed the lead of his father and of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor-married an American woman. Marguerite Branyen. The words the Maharaja chose were strangely reminiscent of Edward VIII's famous last speech as King...
...whatever theorists have said about small mechanized armies, the fact is that every country on the Continent (except Monaco, Luxemburg and Liechtenstein) has conscription and that, far from the armies becoming smaller, they have grown by divisions. Every time Britain started to make commitments on the Continent (such as that made years ago to France and last week to Poland), foreign military men were apt to ask embarrassing questions about the size of the British Army. France long ago let it be known that she was interested in getting British cannon fodder as well as British cannon. What Napoleon, Tsar...
...phantom, one Ralph R. Graham, was finally captured, readily identified the looted houses. A few of his victims: Packer George A. Hormel; Cinemactors Gary Cooper, Tyrone Power, Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard; Director Frank Capra. Complained the phantom: "All of ... the movie boys and girls whose playthings I swiped . . . except Fanny Brice exaggerated the amount of stuff taken." Estimated total loot...
...precisely 8:25 every morning except Sunday last week, the employes of the First National Bank of Pikeville, Ky. entered the bank through a side door, filed past a chiming cuckoo clock, gathered in the directors' room. There Bookkeeper Mary Clark seated herself at a shiny electric organ and began a service consisting of a hymn, ten Bible verses, a short but earnest homily. The homily was delivered by stout, expansive, 39-year-old John Marvin Yost, the bank's vice president, cashier, trust officer and secretary. Sample sentiment: "Pikeville is the grandest town that ever...