Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convinced . . . renomination . . . re-election." Chicago's Mayor Kelly also double-negatived: ". . . did not say he would not. . . ." Twenty-four hours before Iowa's ex-Governor Kraschel left the White House avowing that his State's people "would never be satisfied with a Presidential candidate except Mr. Roosevelt or someone in harmony with his views," Colorado's ex-Governor Sweet declared his conviction that Mr. Roosevelt could be renominated, despite opposition by conservatives like his State's Senator Alva Adams...
...Student Union production had more than merely a welcome reception. It had brilliant melodies, clever lyrics, enough humor, and excellent acting by a sincere cast--the whole combining to make palatable a message of steel unionism and proletarian action. On a stage bare except for a few chairs and a piano, Big Business, the corrupt press, and a hypocritical clergy were treated to tuneful rapping...
...wouldn't the King and Queen visit the chambers of Congress instead of receiving Congress in the Capitol rotunda? His Majesty, Sir Ronald corrected would not receive members of Congress they would receive him. Furthermore His Majesty, restrained by British custom from appearing in the chambers of Parliament except to deliver his annual speech from the throne of the House of Lords,* naturally hesitated to visit the chambers of another country...
...tree; and the William Paley Radio Trophy of stainless steel cones surmounted by wires. These stayed perfectly still. Motionless or jiggly, they were all creations of Alexander ("Sandy") Calder, a hulking, greying, boyish onetime mechanical engineer, onetime painter. Though his Mobiles and Stabiles did not pretend to mean anything-except possibly No. 8, which resembled a pair of deliberate ballet dancers-they are oddly pleasing, oddly arresting...
...Except for normal commercial transactions and British Government payments for arms purchases, Britain, possessor of the world's No. 2 gold hoard (about $3,000,000,000 plus the hidden treasure of India and the mines of the Rand), will no longer add to the top-heavy U. S. gold cache ($15,867,000,000), some 60% of the world's supply. This means that English speculators will no longer be free to unload gold, which is of no present use to the U. S., in exchange for valuable U. S. securities and commodities...