Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uneventful trip, except that in the evening, the President gave a handful of cigars to policemen guarding the station platform at Norwich, Conn. Next morning at 8:00 a. m. the little train pulled into the station at Salem, Mass. A crowd was waiting. The President and Mrs. Coolidge, "his gracious spouse," as a Washington newspaper described her, appeared on the rear platform. Several office-seekers hurried to them?Senator William M. Butler, who will have to face the Massachusetts electorate against onetime (1919-25) Senator David I. Walsh next year, and Mrs. John Jacob Rogers, widow of the late...
...days, nobody could think of anything except the Experts' Plan or of anybody except Sir Josiah. Then, up spoke John W. O'Leary, President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, in an even, calm voice that dissipated the prevalent pessimism. The substance of his speech was that the only cure for the ills of the world was adhesion to the sanctity of contracts. He reminded his audience that the U. S. Government had been carrying the interest on billions of dollars owing to the American people, that Britain had made enormous contribution by recognizing her liabilities...
Milk, said Homeopath John P. Sutherland, is fitted to serve as a food only during infancy. One species does not lend itself to the use of the milk of another except when the two are very closely related. It is not a particularly good food for the adult of any species. A number of Allopaths promptly came to the support of milk through the press ?declared that it was a most valuable food...
...coöperation the mildest and most absurd of protests. So long as the masses could bathe uninterruptedly in the holy waters of the Ganges, what did it matter to them who ruled India? And, farther south, the millions of Tamils, Telagus, and others knew little, saw little, felt little, except the heat...
...Except for Mr. Dresser's provocative paper on Birth Control-a subject now agitating several churches-the annual Swedenborgian convention was uneventful. But this proved sufficient cause to recapture from historical lore the name by which this smallest of sects is known: Emmanuel Swedenborg, of Sweden, who was poet, mystic, mathematician, physician, statesman, inventor-almost everything but a Malthusian...