Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Index of Business Conditions, having fallen steadily during January, was tidily up. Whether this marked the beginning of a new upward trend remained in doubt last week as the Index showed a slight decline of .4 points-from 99.2 to 98.8. The public's spending was off everywhere except in financial centres, where the North American Co.'s $105,000,000 refunding produced a spurt-which is likely to prove brief since no big capital issues are scheduled for the next few weeks...
Balancing two victories against two defeats, the wrestling team enters the lists against Columbia today in the indoor Athletic Building at three o'clock. With a green team that has shown up well in the past few matches, the varsity can claim success thus far except in the Navy encounter last week...
...insipid "Wings of the Navy," currently at the Metropolitan. Built around a trite story of two brothers in a naval flying school, the picture contains little acting, a dull script, and slowly paced direction. Olivia DeHavilland, apex of the now-winged eternal triangle, has nothing to do except be ornamental; John Payne, who wins the girl from George Brent and sells the airplane (replete with wings) to the government, makes the most of an exceedingly limited role. Only the photography, sometimes very beautiful, and the comedy, occasionally top-notch in the hands of Frank McHugh, save the picture from utter...
...behind the political and military front, Hay took note, however, of many a minor picturesque happening, such as the visit of a temperance delegation, "looking blue & thin in the keen autumnal air," or the tantrums of Mrs. Lincoln ("The Hell-cat is getting more Hell-cattical day by day."). Except where it touches Lincoln, the main note of his diary is one of caustic or amused astonishment, particularly toward Generals McClellan ("the little Napoleon . . . afraid either to fight or run") and Benjamin Butler ("His ignorance of war leads him constantly to require impossibilities from his subordinates and to fear impossibilities...
...National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and Louis Armstrong playing "Jeepers Creepers"; a murder mystery, and Maxine Sullivan singing "Mutiny in the Nursery;"--that is the dish the University is serving up today and tomorrow. In its serious moments, except for a rendition of Wagner's "Tannhauser," it is very poor; in its humorous ones, excellent. "There's That Woman Again," with Melvyn Douglas and Virginia Bruce, pretends to be a detective story, with domestic trimmings; but the director, realizing that his "mystery" was as transparent as the glass doors in the Douglas-Bruce apartment, threw the emphasis on the humorous side...