Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such various success that his attitude toward national farm relief legislation varies greatly and his many spokesmen often disagree. But the new McNary Bill, not to be confused with the oldtime McNary-Haugen Bill of which this was a 1928 model not yet hyphenated, applied to all farm products except meats, vegetables and fruits. In general, Honest John Farmer could be said to favor it. Hence the politics in Congress...
...Census Bureau's Negroes remained unsegregated, except of their own volition. Southerners continued to be vexed...
...Compte Vriaac shows that he knew what a very indifferent Count would do to a Marquise who jilted him. It is about these two that the story is woven. Eighteen years before the opening of the play, the Marquise left Vriaac with an infant daughter, for no other 0reason except that the Count had never asked her to marry him. Three years previous she did a similar thing to his best friend, only this time it was a son. The Count Vriaac and his friend, ignorant that their children were brother and sister, almost force them to marry. A timely...
...discuss student government, the honor system, fraternities, curriculum, training for public careers, and athletics. Parallel to these discussion groups were the open meetings of the six standing committees on finance, travel, curriculum, international relations, publicity, and organization. These meetings served a purpose similar to that of the discussion groups, except that they were based on the activities of permanent committees which had been working for the past year in their respective fields...
Author Delmar, 23, Bronx-bred herself, reports with winning sincerity the workaday story of small-town white Harlem. Except for formalistic lapses that smack of the copies and carbon copies of her typist days, Mrs. Delmar sticks to the racy inelegant talk of the Collins's and their friends, and thus brings them into the limelight of current fiction, featured with Harlem blacks, New England neurotics, mid-western realtors, Manhattan flappers, Riviera swells. The Literary Guild has made Bad Girl its April choice, because "around the simple story is woven a background so authentic it has the quality...