Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Campaign. All parties immediately set their election machinery in motion. All, except the Government party, which can now bank on liberal support from the alarmed business community, were short of money, principally on account of a general election having recently been held (TIME, June...
...only a few years ago since Mr. Healy, referring to the oppo- sition, called it "a number of persons whom we have never heard of before except in connection with explosions and assassinations." These words aroused the Free State to a high pitch of indignation and pride. "Tim's off again,"was the most indulgent of the remarks passed on the sidewalks of Dublin. But "Tim" did not give "two hoots" what anybody thought and everybody knew it. And even if the opposition has come to be better known and less associated with assassinations, "sure and to goodness thair...
...best player in the U. S. Most of them felt that Helen Wills was the best, with the others ranked in fairly predictable groups behind her. Matters went as expected through the early rounds. Miss Wills won, Mrs. Molla Mallory won, all the visiting Englishwomen won except Mrs. Kitty McKane Godfree who defaulted to save herself for doubles...
...earnestly request my wife and my children and descendants that they steadfastly decline to sign any bonds or obligations of any kind as surety for any other person or persons; that they refrain from anticipating their income in any respect; that they refuse to make any loans except on the basis of first-class well-known securities and that they invariably decline to invest in any untried or doubtful se- curities or property or enterprise or business...
During the first half of this year the mail order and chain store companies (except Montgomery, Ward) did more business than during the prosperous first half of 1926. The comparative sales of 21 important ones in thousands of dollars (three zeros are to be added after each figure...