Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter Into the kingdom of Heaven.-Matt...
...trouble you to let me know the answer to the above question, and if Governor Smith did not receive the largest popular vote, except for Mr. Hoover, will you please state who did and what the figures as to the votes were...
Mayor. A dapper, quick-eyed gentleman in an easy chair at the City Hall-a Manhattanite with sporting instincts not unlike Rothstein's except that his gambling is in votes and publicity-could stand it no longer. Once before, under deadly parallel circumstances, a Mayor of New York had lost caste when a gambler's murderers were brought to justice slowly during his administration.* So Mayor James John Walker called for his Police Commissioner and gave him a certain number of days to get "action...
...public engagements and most private, H.R.H. kept himself in trim by a daily game of squash racquets with the Duke of York at the Royal Automobile Club. As head of the Regency Council the "High and Mighty Prince" acted pro-tempore with the authority of King and Emperor-except that he did not possess the power of creating Peers, dubbing Knights...
Actually supreme at Nanking is the Central Executive Committee of Forty-Six, which recalls by its title the Russian Central Executive Committee. The Chinese Committee is technically responsible to the Party Congress; but the Congress cannot assemble except by order of the Committee, which is supreme when the Congress is not in session...