Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...River, which flows some 250 mountainous miles from southwestern Virginia in a hook northwest into West Virginia,* is a thoroughly old-fashioned stream. The New is unimproved, except for traces of a small Congressional appropriation a half-century ago; like all unimproved streams it alternately races and moseys, brawls and dawdles. Fifteen years ago Appalachian Electric Power Co. decided to throw a dam across the New, five miles above the little town of Radford, Va. (pop. 6,898). The Federal Power Commission demanded that Appalachian accept a license to dam the stream for a power plant. Under the Federal Water...
...Madden's "poor party" is a New York institution. So is Joe Madden. Born Joseph Augustin Penzo, son of an Italian baker "who was O.K. except all his life he never possessed change of a quarter," Joe grew up on Manhattan's tough West Side. When he was in the fourth grade, he hit his teacher "on the francis" with an eraser because she laughed at the way he spelled Philadelphia. When the truant officers found him, ten days later, he was sent to reform school. There he met an Irish kid named Frankie Madden, leader...
...flourished temporally with Nazi backing. But its churches are three-fourths empty. Typical Deutsche Christen bishop is Dr. Martin Sasse of Thuringia, who declares: "We would still go on with the Führer even if he closed the church doors before us. In Germany, there is no life except with the Führer. . . . The present-day task of theological science is to provide a religious foundation for the new State ethics...
...Queen of its night life is the Pastime's Blonde Bobbie, who relaxes at the piano between rounds, amazes customers with a repertoire ranging from blues to classics (all played by ear). On West Second Street flourishes a row of oldtime cribs, whose occupants have nothing to fear except monthly medical examinations...
...government theatre ever heard of. It got loud approval from most commercial theatre people (just as libraries are approved by booksellers). It grossed $2,000,000 at the box office and at the end of the project its receipts were meeting all expenses-costumes, scenery, lighting, royalties, advertising-except labor. It was killed by Congress in June 1939. Like almost every enterprise, public or private, at the time, Federal Theatre had its radical elements. But an almost Neanderthal illiteracy played a part in Federal Theatre's murder. In the Dies Committee's hearings Representative Joe Starnes of Alabama...