Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perle Mesta is shaped to the mold of a Rubens model who has reached the age of a Helen Hokinson character. Her figure requires stern corseting; she carries a diet book in her purse, consults it before ordering. Except for her parties, she hates to spend money. Once she walked two blocks to Democratic headquarters because her hotel charged 12? for a phone call. People are always trying to wheedle money out of her; she does her own ordering for big affairs, and drives a good housewifely bargain. Says Perle, thrusting out her chin: "I'm stingy. That...
...things looked pretty bleak in Communism's domains. In Budapest, you must not cry. In Moscow, you must not laugh except at prescribed subjects. All you could do was to shut...
...personally handed each man $210, promised $20 a day and free meals at the fancy midtown El Ciervo restaurant, then packed all of them off to plants where they were needed most. One by one, the newspapers reappeared. By week's end the strikers were back at work -except for 40%, who had lost their jobs in the shuffle...
...Director Rothenstein had made his point. The selection committees had purchased no Hogarths, Reynoldses, Gainsboroughs, Constables, Turners, Blakes or Lawrences. Among later artists, there were no canvases by Whistler or Rossetti-though there were a great many by Royal Academicians. This week, except for about 30 paintings and sculptures which the Tate had always thought worth looking at, the exhibit went back into deep freeze -Psyche...
Buyers will now have 21 months (instead of 15 to 18) to pay for goods covered by the regulation. Minimum down payments were cut from 20% to 15% of the purchase price, except for automobiles (which stayed at one-third...