Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Because other countries (except Japan) play baseball hardly at all and world competition is conspicuously absent...
...refusing to mention the abandonment of such various and sundry accusations even by those making them. For instance, you published to the world my picture, as though I had undertaken to hire some scoundrel to kill a member of the State Legislature; and when, after hearing no testimony except that of the witnesses against me- even the anti-Long leaders themselves did not allow a vote to be taken on such a charge-you said nothing about it. Further, you pictured up a great Mardi Gras party, that I was supposed to have attended, to have been a terrible thing...
...whispers, enchants his family with the great white droop of his head, the flash of his cavernous eyes. In an adept supporting cast, Fred Tiden is outstanding as the finical son-in-law who cannot bear to have small children tumbling about him. The children are never seen except as his nervous fingers betray their insuperability...
...great builder of bridges is Ralph Modjeski and honored last week with his sixth scientific medal. But, except for his own stubborn leaning to engineering and his fond mother's indulgence, he might have been a musician or actor. For his mother was the late great tragedienne Helena Modjeska, and he was her only son. He played in the green rooms of Europe while she enacted the rolling romantic tragedies of the 1860s and '70s. In 1876 personal tragedies forced her to go to raw California as a ranch developer. Almost forgotten became her husband, Gustav Modrzejewski...
...tennis season is all over except for part of the proverbial shouting. The official first ten has yet to be selected, and there are few who envy the U. S. L. T. A. its job. Not that all tennis enthusiasts won't do a little picking on their own hook, but they wouldn't relish the idea of having their choice branded as official...