Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consider the veracity of TIME, and compare it with that of members of the German High Command, I prefer to believe TIME. We have not yet forgotten how Feld Marshal von Machensen, et al, broke their pledged word, as evinced by solemn treaty, and invaded Belgium without any right except that of might. If their word was of no value in 1914 what reason have we to believe that the leopard has changed his spots? The same stricture applies to the occupant of Doom in an even stronger sense...
Arguing particularly against the theory that the law is sacred as such. Dr. Butler declared: "Laws are not made by Legislatures or by courts except in form, save insofar as the general will accepts them. No law which has to do with human thought or speech or conduct can by any possibility be enforced. . . . If it be urged that all statutes . . . that have the form of law have also by reason of that very fact the full force and authority of law, then one can only sigh and repeat softly the immortal words of Mr. Bumble...
What the haranguing Pandit meant was coldly and succinctly put to the Subjects Committee of the Congress by skinny, self-starved Mahatma Gandhi, squatting as usual on his little dais, naked except for a loin cloth-fanatically revered...
Same Judge. Except for two new names on the masthead, the current number of Judge could hardly be distinguished from any of its predecessors. The new names were those of Jack Shuttleworth, editor, and Phil Rosa, art editor. Between them they shared the job abandoned by Anthony...
MAYBE it can be done. They tell us, now that Queen Elizabeth was a man, and hid it from everybody but a chosen few for a matter of half a century. This book, evidently, is an expose of the way she did it, except that, by reverse English, the girl in the book was really a woman...