Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When laws are passed in the U. S. prohibiting Sunday golf, great is the outcry. Laws have been passed in Porto Rico prohibiting cockfighting on Sundays and on every other day. But there is no outcry, except among the politicos. The politicos lately passed a bill repealing their harshest prohibition. Last fortnight Governor Horace Mann Towner vetoed the act and repeated that cockfighting is "a barbarous and cruel sport." But people said the law would not matter one way or the other. The jibaro pays no attention, saving his breath for the secret pit, the dashing fury of his little...
...concern in connection with the rearing of these children and the future of our country is the fact that our citizens seem to be developing a thorough lack of respect for our laws and institutions, and there seems to be a growing feeling that nothing is wrong in life except getting caught...
...plane were four men: Capt. Charles F. Kingsford-Smith, commander, organizer; Capt. Charles T. P. Ulm, copilot; Capt. Harry W. Lyon, navigator ; James Warner, radio operator. They made the 2,400-mile hop from Oakland Airport, Calif., to Wheeler Field, Honolulu, in 27 hrs., 28 min.-having no trouble except that they thought they were going to run out of gasoline. Their plane, called the Southern Cross, is a Fokker monoplane equipped with three Wright Whirlwind motors...
...between them. This was the face of famed Architect Ralph Adams Cram. The doors were those of the new, huge, Gothic Chapel designed by Architect Cram and built at a cost of $2,000,000, for Princeton students to worship in. The chapel, larger than all other college chapels except that at King's College,* Cambridge, was being dedicated last week with properly pretentious medieval ceremony when the knocking and opening occurred. After the dedication, the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Pa., sang Bach's "Mass in B Minor...
...finance committee; Edward G. WTilmer to be president. Mr. Wilmer, by training a lawyer, has been Dodge Bros, president since Clarence Dillon took control in 1925. Mr. Dillon made Mr. Wilmer a Dillon-Read partner. He is a superb executive, the sort of man Mr. Chrysler himself is, except that Mr. Chrysler is also an automotive engineer almost without equal...