Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soldier who achieved these things was born in Naples, his father a commoner, his mother a baroness. Never rich, it was the fate of General Diaz to die possessed of almost nothing except a small house in Naples which was presented to him by popular subscription after the War. The house he left to his son, last week, bidding him not to sell it except in direst need. Such was the last request of one whom Italy created Duca della Victoria (Duke of Victory) and who chose for himself the motto: "Better to live one day as a lion than...
...Chamber of Deputies continued, of course, too overawed to make any response to Signor Mussolini except applause...
Marriage on Approval. A year ago the same play, except for minor details, was offered under the simple title Trial Marriage. As it was then, it is now, a too wordy, too self-serious story .of a wistful but determined chit who refused to marry the man she loved until she had tried living with him, and who then, through the machinations of a reedy villain, goes to jail for a shooting instead of to church for a wedding. Sadder and less idiotic, she gets out in time for the last act. The action of the play is ample...
...lawyer, Francis X. Busch: "We are going to demonstrate that the Mayor of Chicago cannot defame a man's character without being made to answer for it. The charges now on hearing before the school board are not only ridiculous but are a collection of damnable lies, except the first in which he was accused of having an educational policy. This he confessed." Typical charges against Mr. McAndrew are that he cut pictures of George Washington out of history books, that he removed "Spirit of '76" lithographs from the walls of Chicago schools...
Under the old system, Harvard, playing an eight-game season, had three dates, most of them early in the season, which were not regularly assigned. These, it would seem, allowed sufficient scope for the gaining of all the advantages offered under the rotating plan, except that late season games with redoubted foes were difficult to arrange. Still, nowadays, with a tendency to eliminate the "soft spots" from the gridiron campaign, the order in which the Crimson takes on its opponents is of less importance...