Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maryland's company took up deck golf, shuffleboard, trapshooting. Except for the President-elect's customary tall stiff collar, every one changed entirely to tropical clothes. Will Irwin, writing for the New York World, reported: "The atmosphere is courteous and pleasant, without formality, and everything is 'as easy as an old shoe.' " The Maryland's radio operators were busied, sending tens of thousands of idyllic press reports and receiving Associated Press flashes for publication in The Evening Hurricane, ship's daily...
...seats on which the Republican 70th Congress operated last session and will resume operating next week. The impropriety of voters being "represented" from December to March by individuals whom they have voted in November to replace, is seldom so glaring in the House as it is in the Senate, except when there is a complete party overthrow as in 1920. Being a much larger body than the Senate, the House depends far more than the Senate upon internal organization for its functioning. The master men of this internal organization must be individuals who have repeatedly been re-elected and thus...
What the members of preparatory schools receive in any inordinate degree is a preparation for the features of college life, unrecorded, except when carried to extremes, in the Dean's office Football, publications, activities of all sorts are bathed in holy light through out the quadrangles of many a famous church school. One studies to get into college so that he may engage in these activities on a large scale and once in this same person studies only that he may remain, and become a Big Man. The constant information that seeps back to the old school about former graduates...
...Outcast", the movie, is nothing extra except that the close-ups reveal an incipient double chin on Miss Griffith's. The plot brings a young lady of easy virtue into the marital complexities of San Francisco's haute monde. She emerges with honor and Edmund Lowe...
...Senior Class Nominating Committee at Massachusetts 19 before 7 o'clock today. Men eligible to vote are: 1. All who entered with the Class of 1929 and are now registered in the University. 2. All who are candidates for the degree of A.B. or S.B. in 1929, except out of course students and men entering with the Class of 1930, intending to graduate...