Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...simply ignoring me won't do. If you haven't seen a copy of the Chicago Times since last October, about 400,000 other people have daily. They know that my shortwave listening post produces copy for my column "We're Listening" five days a week except when atmospheric static gets me down...
Those far-off lands mean little to the U. S.-except that thence come the major portion of the rubber and the tin on which the U. S. depends. There is no other present source from which the U. S. can get an adequate supply of these necessities, particularly rubber (see p. 73). With the prospect of victorious dictatorships in control of Europe, Asia and Africa, the U. S. would have to decide whether it could then afford to be cut off from its supply of these strategic materials. However the U. S. decision goes, it will be serious...
...hero, etc.'" It sounds like a great idea but without a considerable smattering of indifference it would be decidedly risky. To a Harvard man it might be enough to "picture" a man in his B.V.D.'s, and let it go at that. Decorum would be preserved, except in the mind of one timid fellow, busy with his visions, wondering whether that blustering professor facing him prefers red flannels or striped silk, front or back buttons. Perhaps a nervous giggle, an appraising glance over the rim of his highball glass, and it would all be over. Conversation would again flow unchecked...
...Atheism, Cynicism, and Bertrand Russell, little Shirley has been the only ray of pure and unadulterated sunshine. For half a dozen years now, she has stood for all that is fine in America's young people. And so we say with Bill Robinson: "Virtue is never its own reward--except in Shirley Temple's pictures...
...January 1930 Katharine Brush (Young Man of Manhattan, Red-Headed Woman) and her second husband, Broker Hubert Charles Winans, moved into a fabulous Manhattan duplex apartment, with a 30-by-40-ft., two-story-high living room (which lacked nothing, said Caricaturist Covarrubias, except six or seven Cadillacs), a nine-foot painting of Author Brush. As his swan song, Architect Joseph Urban added an even more fabulous workroom-a round, soundproof, redwood-paneled tour de force resembling a swanky silo. There Katharine Brush settled down at a 15-foot semicircular desk to turn out more novels, short stories, scenarios...