Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found that Hogan talked spontaneously enough about Fort Worth's summers, the joys of the California climate-and about golf, except when a direct question was asked. One of them, a naive query about putting, produced a horrified "You're not going to say that in your story?" from Hogan. Perfectionist Hogan began to worry and, later, complained: "You're getting this all mixed up." Said Smith: "Look, your game is golf; this story is my business. Let me handle...
...fears, few Presidents had grown richer on the job. One who did was William Howard Taft. To incoming President Woodrow Wilson, Taft wrote helpfully: "You will find that Congress is very generous with the President. You have all your transportation paid for, and all servants in the White House except such valet and maid as you and Mrs. Wilson choose to employ . . . Your laundry is looked after in the White House. Altogether ... I have been able to save from my four years about...
...simpers. The love stories of the two young couples (Dennis Morgan and Dorothy Malone, Don DeFore and Janis Paige) reach a high point when they go for a spin in the park in a horseless carriage-a singularly low-voltage form of sparking. Not much else happens to them except that they pair off and get married. One lad goes to jail for a short stretch, while the other becomes an alderman. It seems likely that the jailbird gets the best of the deal...
...Weinstock went back he could not say, except that perhaps it was simply because he was tired of running and had decided that, live or die, he might as well be home. When he woke up the next morning, he found the ghetto in turmoil, overflowing with hundreds of supposed Jews who had been driven in from the countryside. Peasants who "knew as much about Jewry as a Polynesian knows about the Vatican" camped in other people's houses and in the streets...
...other times visitors tend to disturb the students using the library and will not be admitted except by special permission," Metcalf declared...