Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems to be going somewhere; but it never arrives. The best sketches-satires on Eleanor Roosevelt, parlor games, rabid Wagnerians-are full of fun but not really funny. The best lyrics trip off the tongue but do not lodge in the mind. The performers are gay and bright but, except for Author Hamilton and Brenda Forbes, have no more individuality than a buck private's uniform...
...Except for two exhibition games, one against the Junior Olympics last week and one with the Brae Burn Country Club team last night, the Crimson six has not played since its 4 to 2 victory over Princeton on January...
...After all, German soldiers have never yet fought on American soil except in the service of American independence.* On the other hand, American soldiers were called to Europe to help strangle a great nation that was struggling for its freedom. It was not Germany that attacked America, but America Germany...
...People's Rally any week is keeping Mennen's out of the argument. This circumspect Journalist John B. Kennedy has thus far managed adroitly in a rich, forensic brogue (with occasionally dropped aitches) that has been on the air longer than that of any news commentator except CBS's H. V. Kaltenborn. His first radio stint took place in 1924, over WJZ, when he was 30 and associate editor of Collier's. In 1925 Collier's installed him on the Collier's Hour that continued until 1931. After Collier's Hour went...
Back in Europe after a U. S. visit, German Cinema Tsarina Leni Riefenstahl announced that she had had a nice time, except in Hollywood, where she was "trailed continuously by two detectives," who interfered with her walks and "a couple of times" were actually rude...