Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impossible to distinguish the actors except as they fall into two groups, those who mumble their lines so that they become blessedly inaudible, and those who remember that much of their play is written in that blank which Mr. Shakespeare has undoubtedly persuaded his fellow-author, Mr. Massey, to employ. The skeleton of the verse sticks up like a sore thumb in many places, so that the audience almost prefers the mumblers. But all is forgiven once Ogden Goelet begins his tap dances, in the manner of Jack Donahue, and the audience can take a good deal of punishment...
...sumptuous Villa Torlonia, Rome, Donna Rachele Mussolini and their small sons, Bruno and Vittorio, spend the winter at an apartment in Milan, and the summer at a little villa near Forli in the Umbrian mountains. Edda Mussolini, their daughter, attends boarding school in Florence. Thus the Mussolinis dwell apart, except on holidays such as Christmas...
Toward his writing, too, he will find a reaction. Here as in England people have decided that his glamor is false; that no one, except in books for maids and butlers, was ever so gallant, arrogant, terse of speech, deep of feeling, precious of wit as Mr. Arlen's high-strung Mayfairians...
...Slocum '28, on the mound for the Juniors starred for the winners, allowing seven scaltered hits, striking out six of the batters who faced them, and adding to his team's total with a circuit clout in the third inning. Except for one bad and long seventh inning in which the Juniors pushed agrees seven runs, V. B. Weymouth '29 hurled a fair game for the Sophomores, chalking up five strikeouts against the winners...
...Baker, the distinguished economist of the United States Department of Agriculture, "that if the population of the United States continues to increase for more than another century as it has during the past century, there is no means by which the present standard of living can be maintained, except by importation of foodstuffs from other lands,--which will need their foodstuffs even more than we. And looking forward 200 or 300 years, which is a shorter span of time than that elapsed since the settlements of Jamestown and Plymouth, it seems necessary to recognize not only a stationary population...