Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cars in a garage. They had a baby girl, and things were all right until 1931. Then Ben lost his job, looked in vain for another. Another baby was born, a boy this time. On relief, 42-year-old Ben drew $11.40 a week. Their house had no heat except the kitchen stove. "Wasn't fit for animals," observed Pearl wearily. "Every time it rained it rained right into the house." She made what she could from odd jobs. Ben salvaged junk, pawned his coat and whatever else they could do without...
...whatever Valhalla exists for U. S. politicos, many a shade must have called for stronger mead one day last week. For in Washington the Civil Service Commission released 25 pages of new rules under the Hatch Act, rigidly barring 939,876 Federal employes from any real political activity except voting. Classified workers (620,000) may not even express their preferences publicly; may not march in parades (blow horns, beat drums); may not write articles on politics; may not distribute literature or buttons; may not bet on elections; may attend conventions but not participate; may not allow their husbands or wives...
...zannes, van Goghs, Toulouse-Lautrecs, Gauguins, Picassos, Derains, Modiglianis, Soutines and the rest was sold at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries. It was the most important auction of modern art in a decade, and nearly every outstanding dealer and collector in the U. S. was there-except Mrs. Sullivan herself. Day before she had died quietly in her sleep...
...elder J. (for John) Pierpont Morgan distrusted newspapermen, avoided "magazine men," and there is no record of his having high regard for any writers except the dead. Unlike the Rockefellers, the Morgans nave not gone in for personal pressagentry; neither have they unbosomed themselves to historians. Consequently, the chief books on the elder Morgan, able in other respects, are either obscure or theatrical on the interesting question of how Morgan felt about being Morgan...
...seemed just a few suggestions to Father seemed to do the trick. The presents came through fine just as ordered. And so faith in Santa went into serious decline. In fact, speaking seriously, Santa, nothing ever went into Vag's ashean quite so completely before or since. Except the stork. For a while, Father, like an old silly, kept dressing up like you every Christmas. But it was a pretty dismal flop--and he gave...