Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, a vote was taken on the appropriation. It passed 140 to 12, illustrating that verbosity means practically nothing except delay to the legislative machinery of the House. One item, however, of $500,000 for "under cover work" without record of expenditure was crossed...
Swedish Nobel Prizes. Dynamiter Nobel placed the awarding of all his prizes except the Peace prize in the hands of his fellow Swedes. The learned faculties charged with this duty move ponderously. Last year they awarded no prizes (TIME, Nov. 30, 1926). Last week King Gustaf V of Sweden bestowed the 1925 prize for Literature on Bernard Shaw, personified by the British Minister at Stockholm. Recipients of the other prizes were not so offish. One and all they came to Stockholm, received their medals and diplomas from the royal hand. Recipients: 1925 Physics prize shared between Professor James Franck, University...
...engagement of Princess Ileana of Rumania, 17, to Crown Prince Umberto of Italy was reported by the Associated Press "on high authority." Premier Averescu was quoted as having said to a close friend: "I didn't get much from Italy (last September) except a throne for a Princess of Rumania...
...handed an explanatory card: "The mark on your hand will fade out in a few days. Its purpose is to prevent you from voting illegally more than once. At the last election it is estimated that 50% of the voters 'repeated.' If you have been tattooed anywhere except inconspicuously on the palm of the right hand you possess the right to complain to the municipality...
David Lloyd George: "Last week, with Dame Lloyd George and our daughter Megan, I entered a cinema. Said I as the film Ben Hur unreeled: 'I have never before watched a motion picture except at private projections in my own house...