Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crops looked good in autumn 1939 -all except the political. On the sprouting, tenderly nursed Presidential boomlets set out for 1940 flowering, an unseasonable frost had settled. But hopeful U. S. politicos still tried last week to squirm up into the sun of publicity...
...plates) which halted French juggernauts. Where the French retreat was continuous, the Germans actually lost contact with them since, so polite was this party, Nazi orders were not to cross the French border. By week's end the French had yielded, the Germans retaken virtually all German territory except a few ridges which the French retained as better strategic ground for defense than their own border hills. French heavy artillery busied itself dropping shells into a 20-square-mile area north of Sierck in the hope of landing one on Nazi field headquarters, believed to be somewhere near Castle...
More eloquent for the cause of U. S. art than these polemics are the 85 color reproductions of U. S. canvases in Modern American Painting, the 16 in A Treasury of Art Masterpieces, which show that for art popularization nothing can take the place of color except better color. Grant...
...office to write a blistering story about Stefansson. On the way, his wife handed him some sheets of paper. It was the interview, taken down in shorthand behind the explorer's back. Bill had not known his wife could take shorthand, because he had never met her (except for a few minutes before a football game) until the day they were married. He had called her by long-distance telephone at her home in Attleboro, Mass., to transact some other business, ended by asking her to marry him. As for the interview, Stefansson later wrote Bill a letter...
...Banker Gibson this was such good news that he loosed the floodgates. He ruled that for the remainder of the 1939 Fair (except weekends & holidays) babies in arms or in carriages would be admitted without paying 25? admission. ("Of course," one of Banker Gibson's assistants hastily added, "if the child has a beard, I think we can ask payment...