Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...condemned the two noted paintings which have hung in Widener's walls for the past six years, and were placed there as a war memorial, on the grounds that they are "merely war posters," and symbols of a war hatred "for which there is no place in the library except in history books...
...countries prior to President Hoover's interest in the problem or Ambassador Moore's arrival on the scene. The ambassadorial smile in the picture was purely ambassadorial. Why he wanted to go to little Peru after lordly Spain remained a mystery and a secret, except to a few well-informed Peruvians not yet ready to give complete details...
...windows, into it, across the room, to a map, where, with the aid of a pointer outlining Kingdom of Clavery and Republic of Agravia, two fictitious Balkan states, the story begins. It seems there is a certain precious metal called calcomite. The English control all the calcomite mines except those in Agravia. And the Agravians, out of a tender regard for the British, refuse to sell theirs to anyone, even to the Americans. In their New York skyscraper, the Americans remark that if only Clavery, the friendly kingdom, were to attack, invade, annex Agravia, Clavery would then control calcomite, sell...
...Edward Loughborough Keyes, president of the American Social Hygiene Association, presided. Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson of the New York Academy of Medicine, energetic in maternal health work, resolved that some permanent agency be formed to study and act on sex education, sex literature. The mass meeting approved unanimously, except for Canon William Sheafe Chase of Christ Church, Brooklyn. He, who had abetted the conviction of Mrs. Dennett, sat in the gallery silent, watchful, preparing to continue his denunciation in debate and lecture...
...then to spend the night in a White House guest chamber. Over the dinner table, and later, up in the second story White House den, President and Editor talked. What they talked about, no one knows. From the Executive Offices came no statement. To newsgatherers Editor Lorimer said nothing, except that his was a "social, personal visit." But the newsgatherers, other editors, journalists were set to thinking. During the presidential campaign, they remembered, The Saturday Evening Post said many a kind word about Nominee Hoover, in articles, in editorials. So now, asked observers of the magazine golf, is President Hoover...