Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what is called an uneventful trip. The ship (long, tall, narrow, beautiful Ile de France) lurched. There were no accidents (except for 200 chairs and 12 people which toppled upon each other at a cinema), no thefts, no speed records...
...homeland there is little ... to do except farm and fish," said Manxman Cain. U. S. Manxmen, headed by Manxman Daniel Teare, did not favor this proposal. Said Manxman Teare: "I am an American as well as a Manxman and if we started making a separate quota for every little community the size of the Isle of Man, where would we be?" At the final session, however, the North American Manx Association was organized, with constitution and officers; its president was A. B. Crookall...
While I am not a subscriber to your magazine, which I find very interesting except when it becomes flippant with religion, I often buy it at newsstands and have been impressed with your "inside" information. For this reason perhaps you can answer a question that has perplexed me for some time. Unless my memory has failed me, it is ten or fifteen years since the Rev. William ("Billy") Sunday, the famous evangelist, has been in New York. Now I think this would be a fine time for him to come to New York, because of the prohibition raids on "night...
...Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act. I was also against the Mann Act. Not because I want to get drunk or pay the carfare of a lady from one State to another, but because our government was founded on the principle that the central authority should not act except where the States cannot. I think it was a very unwise departure for the national government to attempt to regulate personal conduct...
...Nominees, visit the doubtful states and to write, whenever he can, stories that will boost the Brown Derby. His Republican equivalent is found in Carter Field, thoroughly partisan chief of the Herald Tribune's Washington bureau. The Field despatches deal with anything and everything political, except foreign policy, which until lately has usually been handled by Henry Cabot Lodge (grandson), another Near-Pundit, stalking about on errands of his own. Most Field and Lodge despatches are plastered thoroughly with such expressions as "observers here are agreed," "as a prominent Republican said today," "it is said," or "experts foresee...