Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press last week were released photographs of the portrait of President Coolidge painted by Frank O. Salisbury during the President's holiday at Sapeloe Island. Friends thought it was good, except that Calvin Coolidge never held his head as imperiously as that (see col. 2), and it makes him a lot younger, firmer-fleshed, cleaner cut, than he really looks. That, however, may be what a good portrait should do. Furthermore, as the late John Singer Sargent once said: "A portrait is a picture in which something-is-wrong-with-the-eyes...
Selections may be in English, Latin, or Greek; but no selection in any language except English has received a prize since George Santayana '86, speaking in Latin, won it in his Junior year...
...Doctor's Secret (Paramount) is Sir James M. Barrie's one-act play Half an Hour done as a talking-picture which sticks to the original script in all respects except that Barrie's play ran the time specified by its title whereas The Doctor's Secret runs for 60 minutes. The story of the woman who lives through that half-hour-30 minutes from the time she leaves her husband to run away with another man, until, her sweetheart having been killed in a street accident when he went out to get a taxi...
...ladies, as well as Hedda's friends, sped back and forth, uptown and downtown, to compare and contrast the performances of Actresses Eva Le Galliénne and Blanche Yurka. It was unfortunate and misleading, for the Misses Le Galliénne and Yurka have scarcely anything except their sex and profession in common. But between them they allowed the coincidence to happen and, with the public still craving Ibscenities as an aftermath of last year's Ibscentennial, comparisons and contrasts were inevitable. For example: Eva Le Galliénne's figure is lissom; it permits...
...planes on. the fly is far more difficult than identifying automobiles. Every plane has on the under side of a wing and on its rudder a letter and number. Those are the Department of Commerce's permit symbols. The Department has issued more than a hundred permits. Rarely, except with field glasses, are the symbols discernible from the ground...