Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record of Vernay's expedition for the American Museum of Natural History. Billed as an all-talkie,. it was filmed in India with silent cameras and later synchronized to allow an announcer to take the place of titles. Opening at the home of one of the leaders, the film, except for occasional cutbacks, rambles on with an unseen speaker and a background of music...
...Premier's son, Michael Clemenceau, has just sent this document to Harcourt, Brace and Company who will publish the book, uncensored, in America under the title "Memoirs of a Victory". The document states that the work was completely finished by Clemenceau and that nothing remains to he done except a final revision for the press, undertaken by his daughter, Madame Jacquemaine, under M. Clemenceau's directions, and the insertion in the text of a few documents which M. Clemenceau had entrusted to her to insert in their proper place...
...humble ecstasy the founder-proprietor of L'Osservatore, aristocratic Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre, knelt on his editorial doorstep as the Pontiff departed. Much like the Christian Science Monitor in format is the papal paper except that it carries no advertisements or cooking recipes, displays the triple tiara of the Pope and his crossed keys to Earth and Heaven. Though crime news is excluded, sensations are not. Thus a recent headline in L'Osservatore reads: Un bambino investito da un autocarro ("A little boy attacked [i. e. bumped] by an automobile"). Significant details were given...
...eyes except the big yellow eyes of the foxes, whom the two men managed to knife or choke in silence, witnessed the bloody scene...
Though Biographer Ludwig has not modified the outlines of a life known to every U. S. public-schoolboy, he gives many anecdotes and quotations in these readable 489 pages that few Lincoln admirers will mind hearing again; some that may be new to all except Lincoln students. For instance: when Lincoln was captain of a company (which saw no fighting) in the Black Hawk War, he was once at a loss how to get his men through a gate. Said he at last: "This company is dismissed for two minutes, when it will fall in again on the other side...