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Word: excepting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...would be in favor of State Prohibition if I thought Prohibition prohibited, but I think in the long run except in local communities where the majority of the citizens are in favor of the law, it will be violated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Burton, Baker, Taft | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Public sympathy has rallied strongly to the young woman?so poor that she Lad no home except the taxi cabs parked overnight in a garage?and so unfortunate as to have been falsely charged with improper conduct by two constables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Plank, Plank, Plank | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...little girls' papa, Major von Hindenburg, only son of the President, was the only male, except a trusted body servant, who was privileged to travel to Schorfheide with Der Alte Feldmarschall and there to celebrate by sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hindenburg's Whistle | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Outstanding in the cartoon history of the 1928 campaign have been: For the Republicans, Cartoonist Thomas Edwards Powers of the Hearst newspapers; for the Democrats, Cartoonist Rollin Kirby of the New York World. John Tinney McCutcheon's work on the Chicago Tribune (Republican) has been, except for his "Tammany Farmers" series,* quiet and conventional. The Tribune has to be wet in Chicago and no organ in the city that gave William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson to the G. O. P. can afford to go very strongly on the Tammany-corruption theme. The "Tammany Farmers" series has stressed urban ignorance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potent Pictures | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...When I think of the law I see a princess mightier than she who once wrought at Bayeux, eternally weaving into her web dim figures of the ever lengthening past-figures too dim to be noticed by the idle, too symbolic to be interpreted except by her pupils, but to the discerning eye disclosing every painful step and every world-shaking contest by which mankind has worked and fought its way from savage isolation to organic social life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUSTICE HOLMES | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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