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Word: exception (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked that anyone having the slightest clue to her probable whereabouts contact the family. Her husband and another daughter, Lucy, 15, who fled through a muddy field when Mary was seized, stood beside her. Brown spoke briefly, saying that he had nothing to add to his wife's words "except that I want her back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

...glance at the billing shows the Ritz Brothers to be featured in the minor picture, but this should not prejudice any except the most violent anti-Ritzists against the program as a whole. Only a few very dull sequences have found their way into this latest, horsey attempt, and there are a few funny ones; but even if it were entirely dull, the feature would fully compensate. It was no accident that the title of Deanna Durbin's "That Certain Age" was taken from a song Ann Rutherford sang in "Love Finds Andy Hardy." This newest vehicle for Miss Durbin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

...history. The worst features of regional writing-shallow local color and uncritical acceptance of apocrypha-make the books little more than extensions of the pioneer tales that fill magazine sections of Sunday newspapers. As an example of such journalism, Powder River is no worse than its predecessors, except that Struthers Burt, 56-year-old Philadelphian, best-selling novelist and owner of a dude ranch in the Jackson's Hole country of western Wyoming, has contributed an exclamatory style that can be described only as Wild West prose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dry Rivers | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...games will be played every day this week except Saturday and Sunday from 3:45 to 4:45 o'clock and from 5:30 to 6:30 o'clock. The other game today will be Dunster against Kirkland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop-Eliot Encounter To Open Baseball Schedule | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

President Day recently announced plans for a drive to raise $6,000,000 for the joint purpose of replacing all the buildings in the School of Chemical Engineering except Rand Hall and of protecting the standards of the Cornell faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News From Other College Campuses | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

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