Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours Mr. Lewis disappeared. It was learned that he had gone to an inn on the outskirts of Harrisburg, there to confir in long-night scerecy with various in henchmen. He returned, said nothing except that a strike in the Pennsyl vania counties of Luzerne, Lackawanna, Schuylkill would certainly be called Sept. 1 unless the operators met his terms...
Slavery. The temporary slavery commission reported that slavery is practically wiped out except in the Mohammedan countries of the East. A peonage system of approaching it exiss in parts of Latin America. Abyssinia is the Christian country where it is still practiced, but progress has been made there towards its abolition. Slave raiding is rare except on the borders of the Sahara Desert. In Arabia many girls making pilgrimages from the East are seized and enslaved...
...Mamma served to bring Alice Brady back to the stage after years of doing nothing except Zander the Great for a brief season...
Every great branch of the Christian faith except the Roman Catholic was officially represented -the Greek Orthodox, the Anglican, the Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist...
...that the Romans observed the law that their language so nobly expresses ; true that the Code Napoleon is strict in its provisions protecting the dead from defamation; true that in Italy a man can protect in court the good name of his dead. But anywhere in the U. S. except in the State of Louisiana, anywhere in the British Empire except in the Province of Quebec, a dead man can be defamed without hindrance...