Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bratton does not know all officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know one-tenth - not one one-hundredth of the officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know anything about the voting inclinations of any of the officers who were in Europe, except, perhaps, the comparatively infinitesimal few whom he came in personal contact with. Therefore, Mr. Bratton does not know any thing positive about that which he speaks. . . . Each week, I look to TIME for facts and dislike seeing such foolish and unfounded statements appearing therein, even under "Letters...
...This issue (prohibition) will be in the minds and upon the lips of the voters from the day the conventions adjourn until the day the polls close. Everybody, except the deaf and dumb and the candidates, will discuss...
...Recently the Mayor of the greatest city in America visited Europe and was honorably received on his tour everywhere by all except the diplomatic representatives of his own country. Our Ambassador to France . . . was represented by one Sheldon Whitehouse, who promptly put detectives on his [the Mayor's] trail to try and get something on this Mayor who was a member of Tammany Hall, a political body not in sympathy with the party in power here in our own America...
Placid Leader Baldwin did not thereafter greatly bestir himself, last week, except to take delivery of a mammoth "Peace Letter" signed by "128,770 British citizens all above 16 years of age" who stated ominously that they "will hereafter refuse to render war service to any government...
...clippings told of brutal, better days when Griffo fought four champions, George Dixon, Kid Lavigne, Jack McAuliffe, Joe Gans. Griffo never met a better fighter except alcohol. On the day of his fight with Dixon for the featherweight championship (Griffo weighed 120) he disappeared; was snatched out of a saloon late in the afternoon; boiled out in a Turkish bath; held Dixon to a desperate draw...