Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rolling out over the Florida Keys was mysteriously restful. At Key West, the sun had long gone down. The train went on a siding and, after more cinema, all except a few detectives and night-owlish newsgatherers, slept soundly...
...Lord Iveagh, shown to the public in London last week, discovered another Guitar Player, very similar to the Guitar Player in the Johnson collection. This they said with one accord, was the genuine Vermeer; the painting in the U. S. was a replica, a copy, an imitation, anything except the original Guitar Player by Jan Vermeer der Delft...
...impossible to hasten the unity of all Christians except by obtaining the return of the dissidents to the single Church of Christ from which they one day unhappily broke away. . . . May they return to the common Father. He, forgetting the hard words they have hurled against the Apostolic See, will receive them with a heart of affection. . . . If they return, it must not be with the idea or hope that the Church of the Living God, the pillar and support of truth, will scrap its integrity and faith or tolerate their errors...
Most of the old road's capitalization was in bonds. All classes of security holders (except the U. S. Government which had loaned the road $55,000,000 and the owners of $182,130,960 especially safe-guarded bonds) lost. But they did not lose everything. Among the debris of the St. Paul's crash lay many a valuable share, which the re-organization managers, whom Jerome J. Hanauer's† gloved hand directed, fitted together a new pot for gold...
...were very great as "Christian sympathy and modern science have joined in a round-the-world campaign to help the leper; governments are rallying to the need of preventing and curing leprosy. In my experience I do not recall that practical aid and comfort have come to lepers anywhere except directly or indirectly through Christian channels. Now, no matter where you look, governments are beginning to study their responsibility in leprosy...