Word: exception
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Gussie") Moron modeled her latest play to the tennis galleries: leopard-skin panties. Undecided what to wear on her six-month tour of the country, she thought it would be "something simple, made out of better material than the dresses for amateur matches"-perhaps black velvet panties "completely covered except when I move...
...year sentence for contempt of Congress, pudgy Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, answered a query on the state of his health: "The carcass is scaled down somewhat . . . The mind is, of course, cogitating, and the spirit is fine. Everything is O.K. with me except for the loss of precious time...
...Except for the Boston Record, which went along to the extent of running a picture of the pot, the Boston press pretty much ignored the big find. But Publicityman Wood was not through. Later, he mailed out another release: the president of the Syracuse University Alumni Club of Boston had claimed the pot on the grounds that it was "very likely" made in Syracuse. Final announcement (due some time before the B.U.-Syracuse game next week): the two schools have agreed to play for the bean pot from here...
...everywhere except underfoot. It hung from trees and on bushes, on fences and around a swimming pool. Chartered buses covered the shows with a grueling ten-hour tour. Mexican dancers, Negro-spiritual singers, Hollywood starlets and a borrowed elephant livened the proceedings. The artists themselves hovered near at hand, ready with explanations and price lists. "It makes me feel good to be looked at," one of them informed a gaping bobbysoxer, "but I wish people would look at my pictures instead...
This last group got more ammunition for its argument last week when, opening the fall term, the Court vacated a decision of the Florida Supreme Court. The state justices had upheld a Miami ordinance prohibiting Negroes form playing on a municipal golf course except on one day a week. The high bench, however, cancelled that finding and directed reconsideration "in the light of" its June decisions in the Sweatt and McLaurin cases...