Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restrictions?no member may be a minor, an alien, a bankrupt, or under sentence for a high crime, but otherwise he need fear no ouster except Death...
Fascist orders concerning the funeral of Quadrumvir Bianchi were that there was to be no music in the procession but the rolling of oilcloth-muffled drums, no flowers on the coffin or at the grave except two wreaths, one from the King, one from Il Duce. Wreath money, it was ordered, should be given to charities in Calabria, home of Quadrumvir Bianchi...
...more than frugal Iceland's na- tional debt). Moreover, neither France nor England has as many telephones per capita as Iceland. Amid such evidence of soundness and prosperity there was simply no proper reason, last week, why the Bank of Iceland should be on the brink of ruin ?except mismanagement...
...Jewish farmers, the Society was able to report an estimated 1,000,000 acres under cultivation by U. S. Jews. Every kind of farming "has its Jewish votaries." Despite the nationwide groaning of Agriculture, more persons sought advice from the Agricultural Society last year than in any year, except 1928, since 1920. Last year 89 families comprising 450 people were established on farms at an average cost of $7,132 per farm. Average capital per family was $3,977; average cash payment...
...gather at tea time but in the morning when their senses were acute. Ignoring polite tradition, they sniffed each cup vigorously, filled their mouths full, then spewed into large brass cuspidors. No hostess was present to pour tea from the hundred assembled samples, nor was there any host except the U. S. Government. The nearest to such a functionary was, however, John Joseph McNamara, Chairman of the Board and a tea sampler for 14 years. Sitting first, he gathered other tasters around him in this order: Robert A. Lewis, Boston; Charles F. Hutchinson, Manhattan; A. P. Irwin, Philadelphia; Edward Bransten...