Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spaniards, the seven prisoners reeled off no Russian tissue of confessions, but denied at the top of their lungs everything except that they had all had more or less to do with La Batalla, the Nin newspaper which the Leftist Government suppressed for noncooperation...
...National Guardsman enlists for three years, a Terrier for four. As in the U.S., a Terrier spends two weeks a year in camp, attends 20-45 one-hour drills per year. Chief difference between the U.S. and British organizations is a British War Office ruling, except in wartime or during their annual training period, that the Terriers cannot be called up to deal with civil disturbances...
...borne out in an exhibition of fresh experimental work by its students (TIME, July 11). But last month opening day came and Chicago's New Bauhaus did not reopen. Neither chunky Director Moholy-Nagy nor his backers, the supposedly well-heeled Association of Arts & Industries, would say anything except to their lawyers until last week. Then Moholy-Nagy sued the A.A.I. for $2,750 back salary, intimated sadly that he had been gulled. But the A.A.I. had a bitter tale to tell of Moholy's trying to "Hitlerize" the New Bauhaus, announced in some confusion that the school...
...countries. Last month an international jury† spent two days picking eight prizewinners out of 365 paintings by U.S. and European artists; last fortnight all the paintings were expertly hung in the Institute's 16 lofty galleries. For five days last week the galleries remained locked to all except a few silent critics. Then one rainy night Pittsburgh's best people to the number of 4,000 crowded into the Institute, swished up the marble stairs and into the presence of contemporary...
...people who appear to be stupid. Very often they are stupid. But it is better not to count on their stupidity). His humor is infectious; his jokes are good; his friends highly placed; his tone that mixture of arch indiscretion and frivolous reticence which is found nowhere on earth except in diplomats' autobiographies. But when readers consider that through the years of his hilarity wars and revolutions swept over Europe, that his daughters were fascinated by the corpses floating down Chinese rivers, they are likely to ask, What is this man laughing...