Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into 17 pools or "holes" in the Brule River flowing north through his property. Wire screens which bob up into place again after a boat passes over them, separate the pools. Brush and windfalls are so dense along the river's banks that fishing is impossible except from a boat. A onetime employe of the late Mr. Pierce says the Brule trout used to be so thick and tame (from hand-feeding) that you could take them with only a landing-net. They were so thick that there was not enough natural feed for them. Stinting their artificial diet...
...Missouri and the Missouri starts an eastern sweep to get on over and join the Mississippi, is the bottom of a great basin and a natural site for human habitation. They say you could give a freight car a shove anywhere within 300 miles of where the rivers meet (except eastward) and it would coast down to the Kansas Cities. Of these there are two. a small one in Kansas, a larger one (383,100 population) across the Kaw in Missouri. They are "the gates to the Southwest," "the continent's pantry doors." Much of the beef, more...
Conventioneers. Responsibility for the physical accommodation and manipulation of the 1089 delegates at the Convention Hall itself was entrusted to a Major R. A. Gunn of Chicago, who reached Kansas City last fortnight. A "troubleshooter" is what Major Gunn called himself, † "I will provide everything except whiskey," he said. This remark cleared Major Gunn of any connection with a $25,000 shipment of alcoholic goods, marked "phosphate" (fertilizer) and consigned vaguely to Kansas City, which was seized last week in Alabama en route from Florida...
Candidate Curtis, the Party's patient, swart, Indian-blooded Senate housekeeper, headed for the convention with greater hope than anxiety. He had nothing to lose except the votes of Kansas and his daughter. He had everything to gain in case of a compromise, for while he was not the fastest of the "dark horses," he was at least "dark" (see below). In Kansas City he was sure to see more friends than frustrators. On the farm issue he had voted for the farmers, then obeyed his President. Friendship and obedience make good bedfellows for ambition. And after the Presidency...
...book learning is not important. The results are the same, and the urge inspired by the same ideals. At any rate Phi Beta Kappa finds itself in the rather pleasant position of having a wealth of candidates when practically every other activity in the College uses every known method except the baseball scout system to gather the innocents into the told...