Word: exceptionally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anti-Masonic national political party was strong enough to put up William Wirt as a presidential candidate against Mason Andrew Jackson and capture Vermont's electoral votes. A century later, Franklin Roosevelt, a 32nd degree Mason, won the electoral votes of every state in the Union except Vermont and Maine. Altogether, 13 U.S. Presidents have been Masons; some others: Johnson, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, and Harry Truman...
...story got around last week, democratic Uruguayans, long among the staunchest friends of the U.S. in South America, broke out in a fit of anti-U.S. rage. Screamed Montevideo's El Diario: "Commercial cannibalism!" Except for sincere but lame assurances that the U.S. had no reason to discriminate, the Army could offer no explanation...
Hypnotic Suggestion. Nobody could believe that Boston, man-for-man the classiest club in baseball (except for pitching), was as bad as it seemed. The Red Sox sluggers, Ted Williams and Vern Stephens, were leading the league in home runs and runs-batted-in. The whole club was hustling, playing heads-up ball, and yet they were 9½ games behind...
...Except for a wobbly beam or two-notably some unlikely melodramatics at the end-House is a well-constructed movie. Into its making went an intelligent screen play by Playwright Philip (Anna Lucasta) Yordan; some distinguished lighting effects and camera work by Milton Krasner; and Director Joseph (A Letter to Three Wives) Mankiewicz's talent for handling atmosphere and sets as effective projections of character. Meatiest character, of course, is arrogant old Monetti, a role which Robinson plays (Italian accent, organ-grinder mustache and all) with bravura and obvious relish...
...hound to death. For years Nunn devoted himself to hunting King Devil while his children grew more bitter, his wife Milly more resigned. When impoverished Nunn Ballew sold some of his livestock and paid $70 for two pedigreed hounds, to raise them from pups with no purpose in life except to catch King Devil, he was ashamed to face his family and his neighbors. To his astonishment they were overwhelmed with pride and admiration-"the onliest real fine things we've ever had"-and the dogs brought him a kind of backwoods fame and prosperity. Bootleggers treated him with...