Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treated the reporters, and their myriad constituents, so much like intelligent beings that by and large the despatches from Grande Anse were quiet and sensible, with very little trash about the social "incongruity" between the bride and groom except where headline writers wrote: "WILDWOOD LENA," "DAUGHTER OF FOREST," "HUMBLE SCION...
...Except cross examination of state witnesses and the lawyers' summing...
Sirs: "As everyone knows" (except "one" gallomaniac on your staff) some kinds of pollen, when inhaled, produce in pollen-sensi-TIME, July 25, 1927 tive persons an inflammation of the respiratory mucous membranes, variously known catarrh, as etc., and "hay-fever" altogether rose-cold" distinct from "summer" "strawberry-rash" which is a skin eruption, caused by eating strawberries. Obviously the last-mentioned malady has no connection with pollen. A few pollen grains may accidentally be present, but strawberries are not inhaled ; not even by French gourmets.* Pollen in plants corresponds to semen in animals, and is produced only...
...Lowman, onetime Lieutenant Governor of New York, was to replace Brigadier General Lincoln C. Andrews, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in Charge of Prohibition Enforcement. But Assistant Secretary Andrews was away from his office on a vacation and would not be back before Aug. 1, the transition date, except "to clean up his affairs." Assistant Secretary Lowman was already and practically in charge. The new Commissioner of Prohibition, Dr. James M. Doran, was also ready to function. So last week seemed propitious for calling the district prohibition administrators to Washington for conference and instruction...
...backwards against the ropes, down on the floor, down on the floor again. Then M. Uzcudun lay on the floor himself, flipped himself erect with a comic leer and said: "Paolino Uzcudun, champion du monde!" Champion du monde (of the world) he was anything but, having demonstrated very little except that Mr. Wills is a total anachronism. Josef Paul Cukoschay (Jack Sharkey), Boston sailor, demonstrated the same thing some months ago (TIME, Oct. 25). At that time, all that Mr. Sharkey won was the right to meet Mike McTigue (TIME, March 14); from whom he won the right to meet...