Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this might seem academic, except that France has already laid down a building program which the British admiralty has announced will force Britain to take the escalator unless the French cancel part of their program before then, and this Prime Minister Tardieu has said over and over again France will...
...times that the Vagabond is permitted to listen to the literature or the history of today. Except for occasional visiting speakers Harvard seems to fight shy of the moderns or to first with them spasmodically and surreptitiously. And so the Vagabond, medievalized by House plans and Lampoons and lectures will try to come back to earth this morning in a front row seat of Harvard 2. For there, at 10 o'clock Professor Murdock will treat the recent American novel...
...with the deepest humility, what Pope is reputed to have said of Dryden: 'Had I been born early enough, I should have known and loved him. . . . His principal fault was that he suffered from a constitutional inhibition against speaking the truth, save on occasions when, if we except the esthetic point of view, the truth would have been better left unspoken. But I have so often found both these faults in myself, that I do not dare to blame them...
When Fred Puleston ran away from home at 17 and went to Africa as an agent for Hattan & Cookson he stayed there off and on for 14 years: 1882 to 1896. In this book he reminisces, makes statements that may surprise. Says he: All white men (except missionaries) of his acquaintance in the Congo had black "harems" (one to three native girls); he approves the custom. Cannibalism was common among the blacks; three of Agent Puleston's friends were eaten. Food was often a problem. ''Sometimes when we were very hard pressed for fresh food...
...Author. Edith Sitwell, sister of Osbert (TIME, March 3, 1930) and Sacheverell Sitwell, adult enfants terribles of literary England, is middleaged, skinny, wraithlike; "in early youth took an intense dislike to simplicity, morris-dancing and every kind of sport except reviewer-baiting, and has continued these distastes ever since." Other books: The Mother and Other Poems, Clowns Houses, Bucolic Comedies, Sleeping Beauty, Elegy on Dead Fashion...