Word: exceptionally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington newshen bustled up to Vice President Alben Barkley and asked coyly: "Veep, my editor would like to know what La Dame Hadley has that we don't have-except maybe you?" Barkley promptly seized good-looking, thirtyish Ruth Montgomery and bussed her smack on the lips. "There is your answer, kid!" cried the Veep. Chortling, he added: "I'll tell you something you've got that she hasn't got-a husband...
...Except for Fanny Brice, as Baby Snooks, no woman comic has ever seriously challenged radio's top funnymen. Most radio comediennes (Mary Livingstone, Portland Hoffa, Jane Ace, Gracie Allen) stick to mixed-doubles family comedy...
...another five points, off 34 points from 1948's postwar peak. In early July, the Department of Commerce reported, unemployment had edged over the 4,000,000 mark for the first time since 1942. Though there were an estimated 59.7 million at work, more than in any year except 1948, in some areas there were long lines of the jobless collecting benefits...
...mild-mannered plugger, Murphy has no hobbies except work, has built his entire reputation within the Burlington system. Before joining the Burlington in 1914, he strung telephone lines, later worked as a laborer, station helper and agent for the old Iowa Central Railroad. After a noncombat stint as an airplane pilot in World War I, he came back to the "Q" as a division engineer and toiled faithfully at assorted jobs, touching every rung on the ladder as he climbed. If hard work could keep the "Q" highballing, Harry Murphy...
...strange life, recorded with more care than brilliance by Biographer Sprigge, unfolds much like a Strindberg play, except for an occasional redeeming touch of the ridiculous...