Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President & Mrs. Coolidge attended the wedding of Miss Barbara Hight and Charles Davis Hayes, at the bride's home in Washington. Except for relatives and military aides there were no other guests. Mrs. Coolidge wore claret-red satin, black slippers, black...
Since Statesmen Quezon and Osmena had not come to plead outright for independence, nor try to influence the appointment of a successor to the late Governor General Leonard Wood* There was little else for him to discuss with President Coolidge, except to assure him that Major General Douglas MacArthur,* the President's recent appointee as Commanding General of the Philippines, would be welcome, and that the Philippine Legislature would soon pass on appropriations and appointments sent to it for confirmation by Acting Governor General Eugene A. Gilmore. The conversation which they had traveled 10,000 miles to seek lasted...
That night, the legends of the sea, so long tamed, so long unremembered except in the late talk at coast town barrooms, leapt up out of the racing mountains of the bay. A tremendous wind walked through the black towers of the rain, a hungry foam covered the teeth of the Irish rocks; all night long the clouds, like vague white tigers, galloped across wild hills. The next morning, under a bright sun and a wind still swift, the storm's damage was revealed. Sweeping westward through England, it had demolished houses in Lancashire; in Ireland cables had been...
...formed, and is now composed of an indefinite number of members with a minimum of 30. To this class Laura Knight belongs. Associates are elected by vote of both Academicians and Asso ciates, having been proposed and seconded by one of the former. They have all rights and privileges except an active part in the Academy ad ministration...
Said President John Emmet Edgerton of Lebanon, Tenn.: "Bankers are not worrying since they own the country body and souL Importers, merchants, all are having a picnic enjoying the country's 'prosperity' except those by whose enterprise the wealth of the nation is produced." He meant the manufacturers...