Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...homes of drunkards and sufferers. There were 12 saloons in Salisbury, and much poverty. When my mother organized the W. C. T. U. [in Salisbury] there were only two women. But it was a beginning, and they made the town dry. My mother never wore any jewelry except one pin, the gold-enameled pin of the white ribbon. When she died we put the pin on her dress, and I pledged myself to work for temperance...
MORTAL STAB TO AUSTRIA!! screamed virtually every newspaper in Vienna, except the Reichspost, circumspect Roman Catholic organ of tall, stern, stoop-shouldered, beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria...
Last week a symposium of rumors emanating from Spain would have read: "The Sefiorita has entered the Convent of Miracruz at San Sebastian as a nun, except that she has secretly married the Dictator and a public announcement will soon be made. Since the engagement is broken she has returned all his gifts and is keeping them in hopes that he may relent. She is living in seclusion at the Old Private Hotel Miracruz in San Sebastian, heartbroken and joyfully planning the details of a magnificent State wedding to take place next fall...
...also a onetime co-revolutionist with Venizelos, dissolved Parliament and then signed a decree so altering the electoral law that the Venizelists, who would probably have won the next election, are now assured a sweeping victory. The decree provides among other things that no Jew may stand for election except on the "Jewish Ticket" which will have to be created for that purpose...
Thinly disguised under the synonym Ottercove, Lord Newspaper-Magnate Beaverbrook appears in Gerhardi's new book, avowedly "pure and unmixed, except for the obvious extravaganza." But Beaver-brook's life has been so rich in extravaganza that the fictitious is not always obvious. Ottercove rides in a Winged Chariot, a comfortable limousine that darts down London streets or rises quietly into the air far above traffic and turmoil. He promises Protegé Dickon (Gerhardi himself in disguise) his greatest evening paper as wedding present, but reneges. He begets a son of Eva, whom he marries...