Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probing and the expenditure of $54,000 (out of $80,000 appropriated), the Committee came out with little more than the statement that there had been "unjustifiable political activity in connection with the work of the WPA in several States." The Committee did not attack Harry Hopkins' WPAdministration except to call Deputy Administrator Aubrey Williams' famed "Keep your friends in power" speech "unfortunate." The election of no Senator was impugned and Senators Barkley of Kentucky and Stewart of Tennessee were described as ignorant of the WPA pressurizing in their behalf...
...approved New York's tabloid Daily News, as well it might. Mrs. Watriss' precautions frustrated the photographers of every paper in town except one. The irrepressible Daily News came out with the whole business- Brenda greeting Elsa Maxwell, Brenda & mother greeting billowy Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, even Brenda being kissed by an unknown youth-all over the front page and across a centre spread...
...until after this afternoon's practice, for several squad-members are still at large. Sophomore freestyler Lonnie Stowell will compete for the first time this season. He has been out with a cold. All in all, the contest is not expected to draw many fans to the pool balcony except dyed-in-the-wool tank enthusiasts...
...world, and profoundly desirous of a separate, peaceful life on this continent, they have thought and acted in terms of a fundamental division of the world. But while thus pleasantly immersed in eighteenth and early nineteenth century thinking, their nation grew into a major world power; and, except for a brief flurry of world-consciousness in 1920--denied expression by destructively adroit political manipulation in the Senate--this wishful thinking continued and increased. Until very recently America has been deeply, blindly isolationist...
...cold, and he was first of the gang to find out about sex at first hand. Such accomplishments and wisdom ranked high with his followers: Wickie Winters, scabby-faced, half-dressed, half-wit son of a washerwoman; Cockie Werner, whose only talent was catching frogs; Nutsie Doane, also ordinary, except for a crooked arm, the result of having a broken arm re-broken by his drunken...