Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This reminder came ominously when there adjourned indefinitely at Geneva last week an august body representing every Great Power (except Russia) and most of the smaller nations. For a twelvemonth these statesmen and numerous experts have been at work, dignified by a 22-word title: The Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference, being a Commission to prepare for a Conference on the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments...
...parking of motor vehicles on University property is prohibited at all times, except that, in certain designated areas between the hours of 7 o'clock in the morning and 11 o'clock at night, parking may be permitted to certain persons connected with the University...
...finally, that those works which were awarded the Pulitzer Prizes were the ones above all others which should have been rejected with scorn. And in all these intimate post mortems the gargantuan form of reality, of actuality, rears its ugly head; for the prizes have been chosen and nothing except a nicely calculated refusal on the part of the winners can alter that fact...
...which has had to combat not only the overflow from the Mississippi river but floods from five rivers which flow across the State and empty into the Mississippi. For four days the city of Little Rock, of over 100,000 inhabitants, was completely cut off from the outside world except by telegraph and aeroplane. Similar conditions now exist in most of the towns and cities along the Mississippi. When the levee broke near Greenville, Mississippi, which is a prosperous city of 10,000 people, the water rose to a height of fifteen feet. Those with means were able to retreat...
...impossible to distinguish the actors except as they fall into two groups, those who mumble their lines so that they become blessedly inaudible, and those who remember that much of their play is written in that blank which Mr. Shakespeare has undoubtedly persuaded his fellow-author, Mr. Massey, to employ. The skeleton of the verse sticks up like a sore thumb in many places, so that the audience almost prefers the mumblers. But all is forgiven once Ogden Goelet begins his tap dances, in the manner of Jack Donahue, and the audience can take a good deal of punishment...