Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with these words: "When I think of the law I see a princess mightier than she who once wrought at Bayeux eternally weaving into her web dim figures of the ever lengthening pas;--figures too dim to be noticed by the idle, too symbolic to be interpreted except by her pupils, but to the discerning eye disclosing every painful step and every world-shaking contest by while mankind has worked and fought its way from savage isolation to organic social life...
...Everywhere, except in the moral realm, people know that they cannot successfully let themselves go or do as they please." The idea that it is the law of life to let an instinct like the sex instinct go was scoffed at by Mr. Fosdick. "Take the instinct of pugnacity," he said, "which is very deep in us. Well go out from this house now, get nearly run over by a car loose your temper, beat up the driver, batter in his head. How will you explain yourself to the judge tomorrow morning? Will you say, 'Your Honor...
...Eight State referenda with liquor the issue have been held since all the states except Connecticut and Rhode Island ratified the 18th Amendment. These resulted as follows...
This was composed of exactly the same members as the parent Disarmament Commission, except that the Russian and U. S. Delegates announced themselves unable to participate. Comrade Litvinov finally consented to sit as an "observer"; but the U. S. Delegate, Hugh R. Wilson, U. S. Minister to Switzerland, had inflexible instructions from Washington...
...party without reference to me. When the party dissolved the administration passed to a committee of three former whips, the Right Hon. Charles A. McCurdy, K. C.; Sir William Edge and Major Gwilym Lloyd George,** who are still members of the Fund Committee. I was never even consulted, except on large questions of policy...