Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report was exact except in three particulars. It was not Russia but Germany. It was not 8,000,000 bushels but 8,000. It was not wheat but hops" (see RUSSIA...
...President Coolidge. Mrs. Coolidge was recovering from a cold-nothing serious, but the lumbago that went with it made her feel like not going anywhere. The President went to a dinner given by Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work in the Pan-American Union building-the first dinner "out" (except for stag affairs) that he had attended without his wife since going to Washington as Vice President in 1921. Mr. & Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. were there, among several dozen others. Mrs. Rockefeller fancies Japanese art, about which the President knows little. For entertainment there were cinema scenes of Alaska...
...Washington. Candidate Willis was grimly glad, having arranged for Candidate Hoover to appear before the Senate Commerce Committee to be quizzed, by Candidate Willis in person, on flood control. Enroute to Washington, Candidate Hoover nailed as false a report that he would enter no primary against a Favorite Son, except in Ohio. The fact was that his handlers had just arranged a nationwide radio "hookup" for a speech he was going to make at an engineering dinner in Manhattan...
...March 1927, when dilution began, True Story promised much, gave little. On its cover was a colored picture of a voluptuous-looking woman with hair down, shoulders bare except for a hint of negligee. The story titles included "The Price of Secret Love," "The Treacherous Kiss," "My Terrible Mistake," "My Reckless Romance," and even more urgent subtitles. But, though the number of thwarted seductions increased alarmingly, there were only two successful ones. This issue also contained a page bearing the legend...
...North Bergen, N. J., six dogs led by one "Wolfe," espied William Kendy, eight years old, with several companions. When one of these companions threw a stone toward them the dogs loped toward their assailants. The assailants ran away except for William Kendy who fell down. The six dogs quickly pounced upon him, bit him twenty bloody times; then, when policemen came in answer to his screech-ings, loped away...