Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem is utterly insoluble, except in a small number of individual cases, if it is looked upon as requiring no more than the finding of a haven of refuge for the immediate victims of the most calculated cruelty...
...Frenchman would rather have a big British Army in existence than any other army, except the big French Army. The way in which things are looked at in France, even by the proletariat, made the defense moves taken in Paris last week important (not necessarily decisive) in the labor war which anti-Daladier zealots tried meanwhile to kindle, with some success...
Said Playwright Shaw: "I am going to teach Americans one of the things they don't know-how to put English drama on the screen. Every word will be written by me. Not the least regard will be paid to American ideas, except to avoid them as much as possible...
Shaw did indeed write all the dialogue for Pygmalion, which was taken verbatim from the stage play except for two new scenes showing Eliza's first bath and her first ball. In doing so, however, he showed his regard for American ideas to the extent of allowing most of Eliza's Cockney dialect in the opening scenes...
Illegal in every State except Florida, the ancient sport of fighting gamecocks-a sport that fascinated George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and other famed Americans-still persists throughout the U. S., followed by hundreds of thousands of devotees. Last year more than 1,000 "mains"* were held in the 48 States, nearly $5,000,000 changed hands at the pitside (in bets and admission fees), and some 20,000 respectable U. S. citizens (from ministers to politicians) subscribed to the four national magazines published for the dissemination of cocking news...